Event Title
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice with Deborah Riley Draper - Lunch & Learn 6-30-2020
Streaming Media
Description
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tells the story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Deborah Riley Draper is an award-winning and critically acclaimed filmmaker, motivational speaker, and advertising agency veteran. She directed the 2016 documentary "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice" (available on Amazon Prime) and in February 2020 released her book that expands on the stories in the film. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete amid a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority that considered them inferior. Yet, if they stayed, would they ever have to chance to prove them wrong on a global stage?
A part of the Holocaust Center for Humanity's Lunch and Learn program. This event was sponsored by:The Northwest African American Museum | The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University | The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle | Temple De Hirsch Sinai | Jconnect Seattle | Temple B'nai Torah | Herzl-Ner Tamid | Temple Beth Am
Document Type
Event
Location
Virtual Event
Duration
56:49
Title of Series
Holocaust Center for Humanity Lunch and Learn
Genre/Form
presentations
Event Website
https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/past-lunch-and-learn-program
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Olympics--History; African American athletes; Racism in sports--History; Discrimination in sports--History
Geographic Coverage
Germany
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)
Keywords
1936 Olympics, African Americans, Nazi Germany
Type
Moving image
Rights
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Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice with Deborah Riley Draper - Lunch & Learn 6-30-2020
Virtual Event
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tells the story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Deborah Riley Draper is an award-winning and critically acclaimed filmmaker, motivational speaker, and advertising agency veteran. She directed the 2016 documentary "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice" (available on Amazon Prime) and in February 2020 released her book that expands on the stories in the film. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country that considered them second-class citizens and would compete amid a strong undercurrent of Aryan superiority that considered them inferior. Yet, if they stayed, would they ever have to chance to prove them wrong on a global stage?
A part of the Holocaust Center for Humanity's Lunch and Learn program. This event was sponsored by:The Northwest African American Museum | The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University | The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle | Temple De Hirsch Sinai | Jconnect Seattle | Temple B'nai Torah | Herzl-Ner Tamid | Temple Beth Am
https://cedar.wwu.edu/rwicommunity/rwi_community/community_videos/3