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Sports: All-American

Sports unite people, teach values, and inspire hope and pride. In the United States, sports have powered efforts to bring citizens together, shape them, and project a vision of what it means to be American. But sports convey power to athletes too—power to break social barriers and protest injustice

Many of the documents and other materials found on this page are featured in the All-American: The Power of Sports exhibit from the National Archives.