Editing Wilma Rudolph (section)

==Later years==
Rudolph did not earn significant money as an amateur athlete and shifted to a career in teaching and coaching after her retirement from track competition.<ref name=bbc/> She began as a second-grade teacher at Cobb Elementary School, which Rudolph had attended as a child, and coached track at Burt High School, where she had once been a student-athlete herself,<ref name=NBAW958-61/> but conflict forced Rudolph to leave the position.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Rudolph moved several times over the years and lived in various places such as Chicago, Illinois; [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]; [[St. Louis|Saint Louis]], [[Missouri]]; [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]; Tennessee; [[California]]; and [[Maine]].<ref name="t" />

Rudolph's autobiography, ''Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph'', was published in 1977. It served as the basis for several other publications and films. By 2014, at least 21 books on Rudolph's life had been published for children, from pre-school youth to high school students.<ref>Liberti and Smith, pp. 14–15.</ref>

In addition to teaching, Rudolph worked for nonprofit organizations and government-sponsored projects that supported athletic development among American children. In [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], she became involved in the federal [[Job Corps]] program, and Rudolph served as a track specialist for Operation Champion in 1967.<ref name=NBAW958-61/><ref name=bio1/> In 1981, Rudolph established and led the Wilma Rudolph Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana, that trains youth athletes.<ref name=Hine-992-93/> Six years later, she joined [[DePauw University]] in [[Greencastle, Indiana]], as director of its women's track program and served as a consultant on minority affairs to the university's president.<ref name=Depauw>{{cite web | title = Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph Joins DePauw Team | publisher = DePauw University | date = January 14, 1987 | url = http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=21712 | access-date = February 9, 2017 | archive-date = August 7, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110807035927/http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=21712 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Rudolph went on to host a local television show in Indianapolis. She was also a publicist for Universal Studios as well as a television sports commentator for [[ESPN on ABC|ABC Sports]] during the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and lit the cauldron to open the Pan American Games in Indianapolis in 1987 in front of 80,000 spectators at the [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway]].<ref name=Depauw/><ref>{{cite journal| author=Wilma L. Moore| title =Everyday People: Champions and History Makers | journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =24| issue =4 | pages=26–29 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Fall 2012}}</ref> In 1992, two years before her untimely death, Rudolph became a vice president at Nashville's Baptist Hospital.<ref name="t" />