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
(2020)
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/796.78089/DRAPER,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2020]
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
8 audio discs (approximately 540 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9781797105536 30dk6q, 1797105531 10dk6q, 9781797105543, 179710554X, 9781797105536, 9781797105536
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
At head of title: Blair Underwood presents
This book tells the true story of eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. They were originally torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. But in competing, they defied the racism of anti-Semitism, Aryan superiority, and the Jim Crow South
Title from web page
Compact discs
Unabridged
Read by Leon Nixon