Black Power Salute

00:00:02 This programme contains some strong language

00:02:42 In my freshman year I remember asking the head basketball coach

00:05:38 Smith begins to pour it on, he literally flies toward the tape

00:08:43 What made Muhammad Ali so important to African America athletes

00:11:41 the whole situation with the fraternities and the sororities

00:13:51 for whatever he was trying to say?

00:16:45 He'd been stripped of his world title and banned from boxing for refusing to fight in Vietnam.

00:19:32 Those suit-wearing days were over with, you didn't have to be polite, in point of fact

00:22:22 It started as soon as we joined the proposed boycott

00:25:19 couldn't keep alive media interest in OPHR's proposed Olympic boycott.

00:27:51 When the Olympic trials were staged in September, OPHR was in disarray.

00:30:13 The stage was set for Tommie, John and Lee to make a powerful statement, but what?

00:32:41 It's all or nothing now.

00:34:50 "go get your medal and just, you know..."

00:37:38 what did all this mean?

00:39:47 Jesse did Brundage's bidding, despite his master stripping him

00:42:05 by the United States Olympic committee and given 48 hours to leave Mexico.

00:44:25 his OPHR badge to Peter Norman.

00:46:38 Which was in metres, and I said, "Hmmm...' I had no idea.

00:48:49 And...the rest is history! I broke the World Record

00:51:13 the Olympic Project For Human Rights, I mean he was the person who advocated for it

00:53:49 'four years in which he's been thrown out of the US athletics team

00:56:47 To see that event in Mexico is to see the product of Harry's genius

300:04:00 in an auditorium