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Gr 7 Up—The opening photo montage of African American athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics quickly establishes that Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe were not the only black competitors representing America; there were 18 African Americans in the U.S. delegation. But for Adolf Hitler, the games would demonstrate his (false) claim of Aryan supremacy and publicize Germany's resurgence—he compared American Jim Crow discrimination to his own Nazi ideology. Black American athletes, after ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More