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Title
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US Negroes asked to boycott Games
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Excerpt
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[Excerpt]: "The possibility of a boycott of the United States Olympic team next year by American Negro athletes has become more likely with statements by the sprinters, Tommie Smith and Lee Evans, that Negro leaders have asked them not to participate in the 1968 Olympics at Mexico City. In San Jose, California, Smith, who holds seven world records, said: "It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro." ... Denis Brutus, the president of the South African Non-Racial Open Committee, told me last night: "It seems likely that the Negro political leaders in the United States are seriously considerin the boycott, and I do know that one document on the question of racial intolerance in sport--which was drawn up by the American baseball player Jackie Robinson--was also signed by Stokely Carmichael." ..."
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Bibliographic Citation
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"US Negroes asked to boycott Games (1967-09-26)", The Times, 1967-09-26, p. 13.
Accessed 2019-12-17. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS218328378/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=89f97a51.
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News Item Type
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News Report
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Date
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26 September 1967
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Identifier
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apdp.news.000206
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People referenced
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Smith, Tommie
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Robinson, Jackie
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Boulter, John
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Allen, Neil
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Boston, Ralph
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Evans, Lee
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Carmichael, Stokely
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Manning, Madeline
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Brutus, Dennis Vincent
