Read Maruis and Page, Appendix B and write a brief paragraph summary about each of the two articles detailing their thesis, argument, evidence, and conclusion and they differ in these areas. Additionally, note the names of athletes and others, their perspective, and events in the text because you will be researching them later in the course.
Dexter L. Blackman, “We Are Talking About the Survival of Society”: Black Power, Institutionalized Racism, and the Origins of the OPHR” from the forthcoming manuscript We Are Standing Up for Humanity: Black Power, The Myth of the Black Athlete, and the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Download Dexter L. Blackman, “We Are Talking About the Survival of Society”: Black Power, Institutionalized Racism, and the Origins of the OPHR” from the forthcoming manuscript We Are Standing Up for Humanity: Black Power, The Myth of the Black Athlete, and the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights.
David K. Wiggins, “The Year of Awakening’: Black Athletes, Racial Unrest and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968,” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 9:2, (1992), 188-208.
