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Alice Coachman High Jump
Alice Coachman High Jump
Tuskegee Institute
alumnus
Alice Coachman
photographed during her record-breaking high jump in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She bested the competition in the women's event with a leap of 5 feet, 6 1/8 inches.
Courtesy of Library of Congress