The story of the African-American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The athletes represented a country that considered them second-class citizens and competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet for them despite an undercurrent of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism.
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
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The story of the African-American athletes at the 1936 Olympic Games. (1h 20m 7s)
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