
A powerful true story of 18 African American athletes defying racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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A powerful true story of 18 African American athletes defying racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. 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 w...
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Racial terror including cross burnings; Nazi-era threats and intimidation
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No fantasy magic elements present
No occult or demonology content present
Central focus on Jim Crow, Nazi racism, and civil rights struggle
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Systemic racial oppression, segregation, cross burnings, and degradation
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