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, Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher

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The instance 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, Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.

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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, Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher

Title remainder

the untold story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher

Instantiates

• 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

Publication

• New York, Atria Books, 2020

Note

Companion to 2016 documentary film Olympic pride, American prejudice written and directed by Deborah Riley Draper

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-364) and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• text
• still image

Content type code

• txt
• sti

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• rdacontent
• rdacontent

Contents

The girls are fast -- A single inch, a cross on fire -- Discipline and heart -- Determination -- Dashing to the tape -- The underestimated -- Qualified and confident -- Together yet alone -- Defeat -- Do the little things well -- Looking ahead -- The world's fastest man -- The Nazis take control -- Anyone is beatable -- The boycott debate -- Baptism by fire -- Trial and error -- The Olympic "black gang" -- An almost color-blind ocean -- The Olympic spirit and Olympic peace -- Ready, willing, and able for war -- The snub -- The stop -- The sneakers -- The footnote -- The junior -- The Black Panther -- The golden concession -- The team -- Two ladies -- The verdict

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Extent

x, 388 pages

Isbn

9781501162152

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: HRD

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

Other physical details

illustrations (black and white)

Record ID

1941050

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• 1941050
• (OCoLC)on1129898957
• (OCoLC)1129898957
• 1941050
• (OCoLC)on1129898957
• (OCoLC)1129898957