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Olympic Pride American Prejudice The Untold Story Of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow And Adolf Hitler To Compete In The 1936 Berlin Olympics Deborah Riley Draper Blair Underwood Travis Thrasher

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Olympic Pride American Prejudice The Untold Story Of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow And Adolf Hitler To Compete In The 1936 Berlin Olympics Deborah Riley Draper Blair Underwood Travis Thrasher

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Olympic Pride American Prejudice The Untold Story Of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow And Adolf Hitler To Compete In The 1936 Berlin Olympics Deborah Riley Draper Blair Underwood Travis Thrasher instant download after payment.

Publisher: Atria Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 31.83 MB

Author: Deborah Riley Draper & Blair Underwood & Travis Thrasher

Language: English

Year: 2020

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Olympic Pride American Prejudice The Untold Story Of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow And Adolf Hitler To Compete In The 1936 Berlin Olympics Deborah Riley Draper Blair Underwood Travis Thrasher by Deborah Riley Draper & Blair Underwood & Travis Thrasher instant download after payment.

Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women were torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. After all, they were representing a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete in a country amidst a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism.
Jesse Owens is the most recognized of the group for winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics. Other winners include Jackie Robinson's brother Mack who won silver for the 200-meter race, and Cornelius Johnson, who led an American sweep in the high jump.
As a companion piece to the brilliant documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice this book draws on...