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

Beschreibung

The 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.

Autor

Deborah Riley Draper is an award-winning director and writer known for the films Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution and 2017 NAACP Image Award nominee Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. In 2016, Variety named her one of 10 Documakers to Watch. In 2019, Draper penned the screen adaptation for the upcoming film Coffee Will Make You Black.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atria Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781501162169
• ISBN-10: 1501162160
• Artikelnr.: 61265717