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Olympic Project for Human Rights

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The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) was an American organization established by sociologist Harry Edwards and others, including noted Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, in October 1967. [1]

23 relations: African Americans, Apartheid, Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres, Australians, Avery Brundage, Dominant minority, Google Books, Harry Edwards (sociologist), Harvard Crimson, John Carlos, Mexico City, Muhammad Ali, Peter Norman, President of the International Olympic Committee, Racial segregation in the United States, Racism, Rhodesia, South Africa, Temple University Press, Tommie Smith, White people, 1968 Olympics Black Power salute, 1968 Summer Olympics.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 meters event at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Australians

Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are people associated with Australia, sharing a common history, culture, and language (Australian English).

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Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972.

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Dominant minority

A dominant minority is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority).

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Harry Edwards (sociologist)

Harry Edwards (born November 22, 1942) is an American sociologist and civil rights activist.

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Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson are the athletic teams of Harvard University.

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John Carlos

John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945) is an American former track and field athlete and professional football player.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.

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Peter Norman

Peter George Norman (15 June 1942 – 3 October 2006) was an Australian track athlete.

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President of the International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is a corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrius Vikelas on 23 June 1894.

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Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Temple University Press

Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

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Tommie Smith

Tommie C. Smith (born June 6, 1944) is an American former track & field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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1968 Olympics Black Power salute

The 1968 Olympics Human Rights Salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony on October 16, 1968, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City.

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Project_for_Human_Rights

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