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JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE VS CHRIS EVERT DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN SPORT: SOCIAL CLASS ANALYSIS 1 While growing up in two very different environments, both Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Chris Evert had very similar results in their respective sport. The accomplished this by hard work, commitment to goals they had set, and determination. Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born into poverty. Her parents were very young. Her father was sixteen, and her mother was eighteen. She lived in the worst ghettos of East St. Louis, Illinois. Her house was located on Piggot and 15th behind a liquor store. Violence was a common thing in her neighborhood. Both her dance instructor and her grandmother were killed. Food and money were hard to come by. She often ate syrup or mayo sandwi