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Index
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Page numbers in
italics
refer to photographs.
Aaron, Henry
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem.
See
Alcindor, Lew
Abright, Robert
African American athletes.
See
black athletes
Afrocentrism
Agnew, Spiro
Ahmad, Omar
Alcindor, Lew
Ali, Muhammad
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
Amateur Sports Act
Amdur, Neil
Amison, Willie
Andros, Dee
athletes.
See
black athletes; white athletes
athletes' rights
athletics.
See
sport
Atlanta Crackers
Atlanta Falcons
Atlantic Coast Conference
Avendorph, Julius
Axthelm, Pete
backlash.
See
white backlash
Ball, Coolidge
Barnes, Everett D.
Barnett, Ross
baseball
basketball boycott
Bass, Amy
Battle, Bill
Beamon, Bob
Bell, Bill
Berkeley.
See
University of California, Berkeley
bin Laden, Osama
Black, Willie
“Black Athlete: A Shameful Story, The,”
black athletes: experiences of sports integration; historical place in U.S. sports; responses to 1968 Olympic podium salute; responses to NYAC boycott; tensions between team and race loyalty of; views on 1968 Olympic boycott movement
black athletic revolt: absence of in the South at Berkeley “black fourteen” protest at University of Wyoming in context of college athletics crisis emphasis on black manhood Harry Edwards and (
see
Edwards, Harry); influence of Black Power Movement on intersection with wider white backlash legacy of limited involvement of female athletes at Marquette University
NCAA response to at Oregon State University origins of as part of wider black student protest protests against Brigham Young University; at San Jose State College; school integration and societal limitations faced by at University of Kansas use of protest tactics from black freedom struggle.
See also
Olympic boycott movement (1968); Olympic podium salute (1968); Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR)
black athletic style
“black fourteen” protest
black freedom struggle: complexities revealed by 1968 Olympic podium salute emphasis on black manhood limitations of sport as a vehicle for as source of protest tactics used in black athletic revolt white backlash against
black manhood
Black Panthers
black poverty
Black Power: black manhood as central to influence on black athletic revolt influence on Harry Edwards's rhetoric and actions podium salute as complex expression of proposal to boycott Olympics; protest tactics of
Black Power Salute
(documentary)
black student protests
Black Student Union
Blackwell, Waddell
“Black Wyoming Fourteen Day,”
Boston, Ralph
Bradley, Bruce
Bradley, Stefan
Bradshaw, Charlie
Braun, Frank
Brigham Young University
Brown, Eddie
Brown, H. Rap
Brown, James
Brown, Willie
Brown v. Board of Education
Brundage, Avery: negative attitudes toward; response to 1968 Olympic podium salute on South Africa and the Olympics stance against Olympic protest; views on race, politics, and sport
Bryant, Bill
Bryant, Paul “Bear,”
Burke, Ed
Burns, Hobart W.
Byers, Walter
Cable, Theodore
Canning, Curtis
Carlin, John J.
Carlos, John: cultural “rehabilitation” of image life after 1968 Olympics; podium salute and post-ceremony comments; on racism in sport
Carlson, William
Carmichael, Stokely
Cartwright, Gary
Casey, Lawrence
Caslavska, Vera
Cassell, Ollan
Chaney, Donald
Cherry, Steve
Chicago Defender
Civil Rights Movement: ideals reflected in 1968 podium salute; protest tactics of
civil rights struggle.
See
black freedom struggle