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Olympic Pride American Prejudice
NAME OF FILM: OLYMPIC PRIDE AMERICAN PREJUDICE
DIRECTOR(S): Deborah Riley Draper
STARRING:
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Follow the historic story of 18 African-American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, undermining the fallacy of Aryan supremacy and exposing the hypocrisy of life under Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
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