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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jim_Ellis_(swimming_coach)Jim Ellis (swimming coach) - Wikipedia

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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.

   • 1966-70 (Estimate): Cheyney State, Swim Team
   • Position(s): freestyle swimming

   • Born: 1947, Pittsburgh, PA
   • Alma mater: Cheyney State, Cheyney, PA.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pride_(2007_film)Pride (2007 film) - Wikipedia

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   Plot. In 1974, college-educated Jim Ellis is having a hard time finding employment. While struggling to find something better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, works at the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center in a poor neighborhood of Philadelphia.

   • Box office: $7.1 million
   • Produced by: Brett Forbes, Paul Hall, Patrick Rizzotti, Adam Rosenfelt, John Sacchi, Terrence Howard

   • Music by: Aaron Zigman

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0475355Pride (2007) - IMDb

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   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.

   • 6.2/10 (6.8K)
   • Genre: Drama, Sport

   • Director: Sunu Gonera
   • Release Date: 2007-03-23

5. www.voanews.com › a › a-13/2007/03-27-voa21'Pride' Tells True Story of African-American Swim Team's Success

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   Nov 1, 2009 · The soundtrack is filled with the upbeat music of the 1970's. Film's star, Oscar nominee Terrence Howard says swim coach Jim Ellis, whom he plays in the movie, inspired him to believe in...

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   Where does Jim Ellis start a swim team?

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   Did Jim Ellis start a swim team for troubled teens?

   • The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. Reach for it with everything you've got. According to his mini-documentary before his stand-up special "Laugh At My Pain," actor/comedian Kevin Hart said he was a part of this real swim team in Philadelphia.

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   Where did John Ellis go swimming?

   • He swam competitively for Winchester High School and then would later go on to swim for Cheney State, a historically-Black college near Philadelphia. Ellis started as a water safety instructor at the Sayre-Morrie Recreation Center in West Philadelphia, often working with youth who weren’t selected for other sports teams.

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   Why did Larry Ellis become a lifeguard?

   • As a child growing up in Pittsburgh, Ellis learned to love swimming and eventually became a lifeguard in a time of racial tension when many pools would close or become privatized rather than integrate.

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7. www.npr.org › the-teacher-behind-the-movie-prideThe Teacher Behind the Movie 'Pride' : NPR

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   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...

8. www.usaswimming.org › news › 2022/02/17USA Swimming News

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   Feb 17, 2022 · Thursday, February 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.

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    The true story behind the swimming movie PRIDE & Coach Jim Ellis. Mike Norment moved from Hempstead, New York to Philadelphia to train with the legendary Jim Ellis at PDR - the...