Rapid Ray Lewis was arguably the fastest man of his generation. He won
medals in the 1932 Olympics and the 1934 British Empire Games, and
countless races in North America. Remarkable achievements for any man -
but all the more remarkable because Lewis had to race poverty and
prejudice. The geat-grandson of slaves, he worked as a porter on the
railway, and trained by running alongside the tracks when the train was
stopped on the prairies.
Rapid Ray is far more than a sports autobiography; it is as much a
history of one man's battle for equality as it is a history of
Olympic-level track. Throughout his long life - he is now in his
nineties - Ray Lewis has fought discrimination not only in sports, but
in every walk of life.