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Seventeen American black athletes competed alongside Jesse Owens and are often forgotten in “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” – July 25 at 9 pm
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Thursday, July 25 at 9:00 pm
OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE explores the collective experiences of 18 African-American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts 
and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s grandest affair, the film follows 16 men and two women before, during, and after their heroic turn of events at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
They 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.