Senior Center Screening: “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice”
Event Date:
Start at 3:00 PMJune 15, 2024
Location
American Legion Hall Senior Center Free Community Screening: “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” Doors open @2:30pm- Film begins @3:00pm
Join us on to watch the riveting documentary “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” on June 15, 2024 @3pm at American Legion Hall Senior Center 629 Lakey St. Denton TX 76205
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s grandest affair, the film follows 16 men and two women before, during and after their heroic turn at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. They represented a country that considered them second class citizens and competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet in spite of an undercurrent of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/192730736