Stand Up and Be Counted: The Black Athlete, Black Power and The 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights

The dissertation examines the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR), a Black Power attempt to build a black boycott of the 1968 US Olympic team that ultimately culminated in the infamous Black Power fists protest at the 1968 Olympics. The work challenges the historiography, which concludes that th...

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Main Author: Blackman, Dexter L.
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2009
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/22
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=history_diss