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“Marshall Walter Taylor around his 20th birthday, 1898, when he shocked the cycling world with his record speed trials in Philadelphia. (INDIANA STATE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC SITES)”—Boston Globe
His top cycling rival Floyd McFarland, was a racist and used to be in collusion with other cyclists to keep him behind the crowd in back or crowd around him to keep him from winning.
The book is called “Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being,” by Todd Balf.
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