KINE 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fosbury, John Carlos, 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
6 Mar 2018
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South africa is banned from the games again. South africa: they are suspended from the games again, in rome in 1965, a group of olympic committees, not the ioc, got together to discuss what was going on with south africa. South africa tried to appease the ioc by: saying they will add a black athlete to the team and let him march under the same ag, let one black person on their olympic committee. Brundage went to south africa and asked frank braun, who was the leader of the south. Mexico: mexican students were killed, because they were concerned about why mexico was organizing the olympic games when the country was very broke and 3rd world. Dr. harry edwards made the olympics project for human rights (ophr) They are also bare foot with black socks, to show black poverty. It was this year (1968), that martin luther king jr was shot and killed.
