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

00:05:32 There was a sort of avalanche of the top sprinters in the country, in the world, there.

00:08:41 who's never bothered us.

00:11:34 And more.

00:13:45 We'd been doing this here

00:16:30 This is who Avery Brundage was and he made sure that the International Olympic Committee

00:19:15 set...a new bar

00:22:03 that was the closest thing to a boycott success.

00:24:42 He's the most vocal and the most militant and he would take a stand in anybody's face.

00:27:28 He'd really set something in motion that wasn't only not just

00:29:47 Well, I couldn't give you any concrete evidence

00:32:21 And I said, "OK. coach."

00:34:24 they had black socks.

00:37:13 It was quite a moment.

00:39:15 wouldn't take any action against American Negroes Tommie Smith and John Carlos

00:41:27 until after we demanded

00:43:46 I can't eat that and the kids round my block they can't eat it

00:45:53 And he hits the first jump and he's that far from the end of the take off.

00:48:10 As the world's top 400m runner and a leading member of OPHR

00:50:28 take your own risk and get thrown out, don't be just protecting

00:53:04 a broader movement and this is why

00:55:38 they find it again just in time to be surprised once more.

01:09:03 Olympics for Adolf Hitler.