- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- UPI Teletype Story on Black Athletes Boycotting the Olympic Games, 1968
- Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Poverty
Olympics
African American athletes - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- archival materials
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- An United Press International (UPI) teletype on Reverend Jesse L. Jackson issuing a call for Black athletes to boycott the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City in order to protest against poverty in America. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:08317
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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