Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University

Vince Matthews,
member of the record-breaking
1,600
meter relay team,
lets an interviewer
know how he feels
about the suspension
of Smith and Carlos.
[Wide World
Photos.]
Rep. John Conyers,
Jr., (D-Mich.) briefs
reporters on meeting
at which he urged
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk to intercede
on behalf of
Tommie Smith and
John Carlos after the
star sprinters had been
banned from the U.S.
Olympic team. [Wide
World Photos.] Black athletes at San Francisco State College announce their intentions
to boycott athletics at the school in protest against the college's
administration and its athletic department, which the athletes charged
were "racist and detrimental to the interest of black students and
athletes." [Black Press.]
Earl McCullouch, University
of Southern California football
and track star, chats with
Detroit Lions' general manager
Russ Thomas. Although
rated as the world's greatest
hurdler during most of the
1968 track and field season,
McCullouch passed up the
1968 games in Mexico. [Wide
World Photos.]
University of Wisconsin students,
their gloved fists
raised in the protest gesture,
march in Madison in support
of black student
demands. [Wide World
Photos.]
Black women attending the
University of Texas at El
Paso blocked the progress of
a track meet at the university
after several black
U.T.E.P. track stars were
suspended following their
refusal to compete against
Mormon-controlled Brigham
Young University.
[United Press International
Photo.]