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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

Release Date:August 5, 2016

Running Time:90 min

Genres:History, Documentary

Director

Deborah Riley Draper

Cast

Blair Underwood

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The world remembers Jesse Owens. But, Olympic Pride American Prejudice shows how all 18 are a seminal precursor to the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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