Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History

Traces the story of the 19th-century women's bicycle riding champion, describing how the pioneering Swedish immigrant scandalized period society by acquiring a bicycle and unconventional new clothes that enabled her to train as a speed racer. By the NAACP Image Award-winning author of Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson.