Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White, US Olympian and Long Jump Champion
to WELCOME TO GREENWOOD Home of hot tamales kudzu vines and cotton Mississippi mud Delta blues and five time Olympian Willye B. White Welcome GREENWOOD Cotton Capital of the World
226 Willye laced her track shoes and ran around the world While money and fancy mansions would never be her fate Willye won shiny medals and broke world records Her fast feet blazed a trail for track legends and champions like Carl Lewis Jackie Joyner Kersee and Brittney Davon Reese No matter where Willye lived or traveled across the globe Mississippi was her motherland the place that birthed her vision inspired her determination and set her soul in flight 1662 USA 104
With medals around her neck and luggage for the road the journey was not easy because life is filled with woe But if you follow Willye home or go back to the starting block lessons learned on the track point the way to victory Greenwood raised a champion Willye B. White
