Before They Let Us Play Vol. 4 — Rings, Lanes, and Podiums: Boxing, Track, and the Olympic Stage (Kid-Friendly Edition — Interactive Edition)

One person, standing alone: a boxer in a ring, a runner in a lane, a champion on a podium. Young readers meet Jack Johnson from Galveston, Texas, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens and his four gold medals in 1936, the sprinters who came after him, Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968, and Muhammad Ali. Hard parts are told plainly and at a child's weight, and where the record books disagree, the book says so. Every chapter ends with one short Receipt a child can repeat.

Inside the Interactive Edition: the complete kid-friendly book — all 6 chapters, same topics, people, and facts as the standard edition, rebuilt for young readers and reading aloud; recorded narration by Marcus — 23.14 minutes; picture-led chapter openings; a chronological timeline; a 10-question educator quiz drawn strictly from the text; every chapter ends with a Receipt and a "Where we learned this" source note. For educators: a TEKS correlation sheet for this volume is available with the Before They Let Us Play Educator materials — the sheet notes both editions.

The chapters: Jack Johnson — The First Black Heavyweight Champion · Joe Louis and the Fight That Was a War · Jesse Owens, Berlin, 1936 · The Sprinters Between Owens and the Sixties · Mexico City, 1968 — The Gloves on the Podium · Muhammad Ali — The Champion Who Would Not Go. Before They Let Us Play is a companion series to Left Out of the History Books, from The Digital Black Voice. They built their own game. Then they took the whole game. Edition and price: Kid-Friendly Edition — Interactive Edition $11.99 (this listing) · EPUB $7.99 (separate listing) · Free Sample, Chapter 1 (separate listing).