HPED 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Israel At The 1972 Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens, Munich Massacre

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Olympic games continued: two marathoners from botswana were the first africans to compete in the olympics (1904 st. Louis: george poage first african to win a medal. In 1984 a street in berlin was named after him. Propaganda: racial problems in us would begin to focus on propaganda, athletes and political activists used olympics as a platform, the black power project had the goals of: exposing white nationalism and racism, exposing the. In 1968, militant political activism was endorsed by groups like the black panthers and sds racism of the olympics. Political pawns: original plan was to boycott 1968 games, u. s. athletes staged black power demonstration on the victory stand, the usoc reprimanded their own athletes and apologized to the ioc. Ioc moved forward with the 1972 games, fearing reprisals, athletes from egypt, kuwait, and. Lack of security to help get rid of 1936 hitler olympics ultimately led to disaster.

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