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James Ellis (born 1947) is an American swim coach who founded the PDR (Philadelphia Department of Recreation, or Pride, Determination, Resilience) swim team just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as one of the few predominantly Black swim teams largely for intercity youth. He coached the team from 1971 to 2008, at Nicetown's Marcus Foster ...
Mar 29, 2007 · The new film Pride is based on the story of math teacher Jim Ellis, who fought off racial prejudice in the 1970s to put together an all-black swim team in north Philadelphia. Ellis continues to ...
Mar 23, 2007 · Pride: Directed by Sunu Gonera. With Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise, Tom Arnold. The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
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- Sunu Gonera
- 2007-03-23
In the film, the inner city black teenagers coached by a black man encounter nasty prejudice when they go up against a white coach and his swimmers from the affluent suburbs. Jim Ellis says in ...
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. Synopsis Based on a true story, in 1973 Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard) was just out of college looking for work as a math teacher.
To Jim Ellis, these qualities were important ones to teach kids, especially underserved kids who might not have many examples of them. Jim chose to teach kids these qualities by sharing with them something he loved – swimming. In 1972, Jim decided to start a swim team for inner city kids under the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
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Feb 17, 2022 · Black History Month Trailblazers: Jim Ellis. by USA Swimming. Fifty years ago, Coach Jim Ellis founded the first Black swim team in the country – the Philadelphia Department of Recreation swim team, perhaps more widely known as PDR. Though the 2007 film, Pride, may have introduced his story to a wider audience, Ellis has and continues to ...
