Book HackOlympic Pride, American PrejudiceBy Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasher
In a Nutshell
Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher tell the untold story of 18 African American athletes who defied the segregated Southern U.S. and Hitler's fascist Germany to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Favorite Quote
The most unlikely of figures foreshadow Hitler's defeat and a shift in American civil rights in the most spectacular of ways. Yet the world remembers only one of them, by the name of Jesse Owens. This is the story of the others.
Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
Introduction
In 1936, Nazi Germany hosted the Olympic Games in Berlin.
African American athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals for the U.S., famously upstaging Hitler's propaganda of Aryan racial superiority. But he didn't do it alone.
Inspired by Deborah Riley Draper's critically acclaimed documentary of the same name, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tells the story of the other African American athletes who trailblazed their way into the 1936 Olympic Games.
Along with writer Travis Thrasher, Draper explores how these athletes resisted both Nazism and the racial segregation and violence of the Jim Crow South.
Looking at the stories of 18 1936 Olympic athletes, this 2020 book shows how African Americans challenged discrimination at home and shattered Nazi theories of racial superiority abroad.
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