Sidelined : how American sports challenged the Black freedom struggle / / Simon Henderson
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| Autore: |
Henderson Simon <1979->
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| Titolo: |
Sidelined : how American sports challenged the Black freedom struggle / / Simon Henderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/830973 |
| Soggetto topico: | African American athletes |
| African American athletes - History | |
| African American athletes - Social conditions | |
| African Americans - Civil rights - History | |
| Civil rights movements - United States - History | |
| Discrimination in sports - United States - History | |
| Sports - Social aspects - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; TItle Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; PReface; Chapter 1. Locating the Black Athletic Revolt in the Black Freedom Struggle; Chapter 2. The Olympic Project for Human Rights; Chapter 3. The Black Athletic Revolt on Campus; Chapter 4. Black Gloves and Gold Medals; Chapter 5. Beyond Mexico City; Chapter 6. Dixie and the Absence of a Black Athletic Revolt; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series page |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 ideas struck a chord with athletes and incited African American Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos to protest by raising their black-gloved fists on the podium after receiving their medals.Sidelined draws upon a wide range of historical materials and more than forty oral histories with athletes |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sidelined |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-4258-X |
| 1-299-40207-0 | |
| 0-8131-4155-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807837203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century