A review by alligatoralyssa
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympic by Deborah Riley Draper, Travis Thrasher, Blair Underwood

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I'm so glad I found this in the library! It really felt like right place, right time as I was browsing up and down the non-fiction section to see what would strike me. I had listened to the History This Week podcast episode on it, so when I saw it on the shelf I picked it up immediately. I was hooked all the way through and even teared up at the epilogue. I would 1000% recommend this book to anyone, speaking as someone who usually has no interest in sports. My heart was racing with the retelling of every Olympic game, I could hear an announcer hastily speaking into a microphone in my head as I cheered on each athlete. Read!! This!!! Book!!!! Or watch the documentary (which I will be making a movie night out of very soon).