Quotes from Jo Harper

Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.

Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics

On April 4, 1968, the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, her favorite aunt, Matilda Rudolph, died in Clarksville.

The Wilma Rudolph Foundation is still in existence and works with thousands of young people every year.