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The Revolt of the Black Athlete SPORT AND SOCIETY Series Editors Randy Roberts Aram Goudsouzian Founding Editors Benjamin G. Rader Randy Roberts A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. The Revolt of the Black Athlete 50th Anniversary Edition HARRY EDWARDS With a New Introduction and Afterword © 1970, 1969 by The Free Press © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Reprinted by arrangement with the author. The Library of Congress cataloged the cloth edition as follows: Names: Edwards, Harry, 1942– author. Title: The revolt of the Black athlete / Harry Edwards. Description: 50th anniversary edition. | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017. | Series: Sport and society | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017000461 | ISBN 9780252041075 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: African American athletes—History—20th century. | African American athletes—Political activity —History—20th century. | African American athletes—Social conditions. | Sports— Social aspects—United States History—20th century. | Sports—Political aspects—United States—History—20th century. | Sports—United States—History—20th century. | Discrimination in sports—United States—History—20th century. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies African American Studies. | SPORTS & RECREATION History. | HISTORY United States 20th Century. Classification: LCC GV583 .E36 2017 | DDC 796.089/96073—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000461 Paperback ISBN 978-0-252-08406-5 Contents Dedication: In Memory of Muhammad Ali, 1942–2016 Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition Foreword Samuel J. Skinner, Jr. Preface Acknowledgments 1 The Emergence of the Black Athlete in America 2 Sports and the Mass Media 3 Mounting the Revolt 4 Feeding the Flame 5 Mexico City, 1968 6 The Future Direction of the Revolt Epilogue Appendices A Olympic Project for Human Rights B The Revolt on the Campus C The Black Record-Holders D 1968 National Black Power Conference Statement E Information Booklet Excerpts Selected Bibliography Afterword to the 50th Anniversary Edition Index Illustrations follow page 100 Dedication In Memory of Muhammad Ali, 1942–2016 I first met him just before my freshman year at San Jose State. Ali—then Cassius Clay—was training for the 1960 Rome Olympics and the boxing coach, Julie Menendez, was also the boxing coach at San Jose State. Both Julie and I were from East St. Louis, Illinois, and he invited me over to meet some of the boxers, especially the younger ones. (Ali was born in January of 1942, I was born in November of that same year). Julie warned me that he couldn’t “stop Clay from talking,” and he was right. Upon meeting him, I thought at the time that Cassius Clay was “nuts.” Of course, he wasn’t nuts, just an extremely talented, brashly confident, wonderfully unique and iconoclastic personality, especially for a “Negro” athlete in those times. There was no way that I could’ve anticipated that our paths would intersect as they ultimately did over the years or the auspices under which that would happen. And now it is done. It is only when a giant passes from among us and we stand blurry-eyed and blinking in the glaring reality of our loss that we come truly to appreciate the extent to which we all really had just been living in his shadow. So it is with Muhammad Ali. Though it is too early to tell what the full scope and significance of his life contributions have been, some aspects of his legacy are already evident: he was an athlete of unparalleled brilliance, beauty, and bravado at a time when Black athletes (other than the Globetrotters) were expected to be seen, not heard—silent, self-effacing producers, not loquacious, verbose, entertaining performers who attracted attention to themselves. In the broader popular culture, he almost singlehandedly deepened our understanding of religious freedom as something more than an American historical and political cliché. He influenced, even provoked people from the most powerful (Dr. Martin
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