The SCCOG today announced it will partner with the California African American Museum and the Foundation for Global Sports Development to participate in the museum’s fall season of exhibitions which will open to the public on October 19, 2016. The exhibition presented by the SCCOG entitled Politics, Race, and Propaganda: The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936, will be on display through February 26, 2017.
The exhibition paints a comprehensive picture of the infamous Games hosted by the Nazi Party. Despite the racist agenda of Adolf Hitler and his regime the 1936 Olympic Games are primarily associated in America with Jesse Owens winning four gold medals.
Prior to the Games, a controversial proposed boycott was hotly debated due to the racial discrimination of the Nazi regime.Yet once the International Olympic Committee quelled concerns about the safety of black athletes in Nazi Germany, eighteen African American athletes, including Jesse Owens, Mack Robinson, and Ralph Metcalfe, competed for the United States at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Politics, Race, and Propaganda: The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936 features historic photographs and documents, riveting films, Olympics promotional materials, and first person accounts that tell the stories of athletes who were barred because of their ethnic heritage, those who boycotted the Games in protest, and the African Americans who competed and won a total of fourteen medals, refuting the Nazi myth of "Aryan" supremacy. The collection, organized by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be presented in Los Angeles for the first time and will feature a number of key additions, including one of the gold medals Jesse Owens earned during the 1936 Games.
Politics, Race, and Propaganda: The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936 is produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and presented by the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games and the Foundation for Global Sports Development.
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