Posts Tagged ‘1936’

RIP: JOHN WOODRUFF

November 2, 2007

The last member of the myth-shattering 1936 Olympic team
In popular memory, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games are all about Jesse Owens shattering the Nazi myth of the Master Race with his brilliant performance in track and field. But Owens wasn’t the only African-American on the U.S. team in 1936. There were five black athletes, and [...]

 

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