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Mexico City, Mexico (Associated Press, Will Grimsley). The U.S. Olympic committee's executive board issued a broad apology Thursday for the Black power display by sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at Wednesday's victory ceremony in Olympic Stadium. Mexico City, Mexico (United Press International). The U.S. Olympic committee met again today and decided that Tommie Smith and John Carlos would be suspended from the team because of their Black power display at Wednesday's victory ceremony. The two Black sprinters would be asked to leave the Village immediately. Trenton, New Jersey (Trenton Times-Advertiser). W. Oliver Leggett, Assistant to Mayor Armenti of this city, [Trenton, New Jersey] has registered a strong protest against action taken by the U.S. Olympic Committee in the dismissal of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. two Black members of the 1968 Olympic Team. "It was not Tommie Smith and John Carlos who introduced social protest or politics to the Olympic stadium," states a press release from Leggett. "It was demonstrated first by the prolonged and sustained applause the Czechoslovakian Olympic Team received when they entered the Olympic procession, even before the start of the games. This applause was obviously based on the sentiments of the recent confrontation of the Czechoslovakian and Soviet governments." Leggett states politics was further demonstrated by the U.S. in its 60-year-old tradition of failing to lower the American flag in respect to the reviewing stand of the host nation. "Tommie Smith and John Carlos were dismissed on the obvious premise that injustice and inequities can be confined to orderly and comfortable areas of expression," Leggett goes on. "I suggest ... that protest must be registered in every area of a people's participation." The Revolt of the Black Athlete • 140
Flanked by athletes who were supporting a boycott of the 1968 Olympic Games, George M. Houser (3rd left), executive director of the American Committee on Africa calls for the International Olympic Committee to reverse its decision readmitting South Africa to the games. (Left-right): Heyward Dotson, Staten Island, N.Y., Columbia University; Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, Ghana, Yale University; Houser; Steve Mokone, South Africa, University of Rochester; N.Y. Yankee infielder Ruben Amaro; and Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton. [United Press International Photo.] The author (left) and H. Rap Brown (center) address meeting in Harlem prior to the boycott of the New York Athletic Club meet. [United Press International Photo.] wo of the posters used by e Olympic Committee for urnan Rights to whip up upport for the 1968 boycott. CAN WE DO lE55r
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