Sidelined : how American sports challenged the Black freedom struggle

Sidelined : how American sports challenged the Black freedom struggle / Simon Henderson.

In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City as a demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States and around the world. Though the boycott never materialized, Edwards's...

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Main Author: Henderson, Simon, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Discrimination in sports > United States > History.
Sports > Social aspects > United States.
African American athletes > Social conditions.
African American athletes > History.
African American athletes > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Sociology of Sports.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African American athletes
African American athletes > Social conditions
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Discrimination in sports
Sports > Social aspects
United States
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