Athletes and Black Studies at Carlos-Smith statue San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Dr. Harry Edwards

SJSU President Robert Clark came to agree  with both our strategic analysis of sports‘ role and potential as a change agent  and our goals  of leveraging sport to broaden democratic representation and participation in the University .

He came as a Basketball Player in 1960 and returned as a Professor

Dr. Harry Edwards created the United Black Students for Action and the Olympic Project for Human Rights; leading to the first sports event cancelled due to racial protest and the raised Fist at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

9/9/1967 : SJSU - “ NO PRACTICE, NO GAMES , NO MEETS UNTIL THE UNIVERSITY UNDERTAKES A SWEEPING ANTI- DISCRIMINATION PROGRAM, APPOINTS STAFF TO IMPROVE AND MONITOR DIVERSIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY , AND COACHING STAFFS, AND COMMITS TO RECRUITING BLACK STUDENTS GENERALLY WITH THE SAME ENERGY AND DETERMINATION THAT BLACK ATHLETES ARE RECRUITED TO FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL AND SPEED CITY ! “

black studies and historic preservation the california african-american freedom trail

John William Templeton, creator of the 6,000 site California African-American Freedom Trail, demonstrated the Black Faces, Black Spaces strategy with the Mapping Maya: Creating the Maya Angelou National Historic District tour to open the 48th National Council for Black Studies

John William Templeton announced the Southern Black Business Heritage Trail in Atlanta after a visit to Tuskegee University where he is at the site of the Booker T. Washington statue with Dr. Kwesi Daniels, chair of architecture; Jamal Oliver, director of historic preservation; Lennora Pierrott, architecture librarian; and Jerry Mitchelll, president of the Alabama State Black Chambers.

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