Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University
Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University
Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University
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<strong>Appendix</strong><br />
Brief<br />
Selected<br />
Documentaries<br />
The following appendices are included in order to present<br />
in a more detailed fashion some of the issues,<br />
tactics, and goals characteristic of this initial phase of<br />
the revolt of the black athlete in America. There are<br />
some who may feel that the goals sought by the present<br />
generation of black athletes are far too insignificant and<br />
petty and the prices paid by so many athletes are far<br />
too harsh to justify some of the tactics used. But one<br />
should never underestimate the awesome motivating<br />
factors inherent in any man's desires for human dignity<br />
and freedom. For those involved, the costs are never too<br />
high and the rewards are never too petty. This is a new<br />
generation of black athletes. Their sacrifices in their<br />
own behalf and in behalf of their people and the gains<br />
already made are noble and grand indeed when con-<br />
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trasted with the shuffiing, accommodating past generations<br />
of Negro athletes. Because of activities such as<br />
those documented in the following pages, the decade of<br />
the 1960's-and the years beyond-will be remembered<br />
as that period of time wherein the black athlete<br />
shed his cocoon of trophies, medals, newspaper clippings,<br />
and photographs and became a major frontline<br />
combatant in the war for justice, freedom, and human<br />
dignity. And no more honorable station has ever been<br />
achieved by any man, regardless of his calling.<br />
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