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Sports Illustrated, July 1, 1968 "The Black Athlete"
Subject
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Black Athletes and Racial Commentary featured in Sports Illustrated in 1968.
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Sports Illustrated from July 1, 1968 included featured content about Black athletes, called "The Black athlete: A Shameful Story." The July 1 issue was the first installment of a five-part series by Jack Olsen. Part 1 is titles "The Cruel Deception" and investigates the notion that sports is the most progressive national arena for positive race relations and opportunity for black youth. Olsen uncovers the many fallacies of this concept by exploring the realm collegiate athletics, and the social, academic, and cultural struggles that arise as black youth matriculate into PWI to play sports. To this end, Olsen interviews sociologists, black community leaders, coaches, ADs, and many athletes, themselves. Olsen editorializes, as well, arguing his point that the idea of racial harmony in sports is a myth. The essay covers racial tension, but is notably geared specifically towards white readers. The piece is an example of the ways Sports Illustrated used athletics as a vantage point from which to examine and discuss race with a white audience in the late 1960s. This collection includes Olsen's essay itself, as well as the advertisements that accompanied the piece.
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Katherine Brown
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Sports Illustrated
Publisher
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Time Inc.
Date
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1963-1970
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JPEG/PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Sports Magazine
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“The Black Athlete” page 15, SI 7/1/1968
Subject
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cover story, black athlete, Jim Brown, Willie Mays, Bill Russel
Description
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This page opens Part 1 of Jack Olsen’s five-part series on the ‘black athlete’, and it is titled “The Cruel Deception.” Olsen begins the piece by addressing the persistent story of racial opportunity in sports, citing the oft-used phrase “look what sports has done for the Negro.” Olsen approaches this ‘litany’ as a two-sided coin. He lists all the examples of black athletic success stories, men pulled from the ghetto to fame, fortune, and prestige. Willie Mays, Jim Brown, and Bill Russell are presented as complicated figures, exalted figures who entertain and awe, but who also frustrate and annoy with their “anti-white” remarks. Olsen then presents the flip side of the coin: black athletes who were recruited for their skill, who feel that they “gave” as much to their sport as it gave to them. Jim Parker, a retired lineman, is quoted as saying “football did no better for me than what I put into it.” Olsen offers the reverse of the white sports-fan litany: resistance or activism on the part of black athletes that white sports fans read as a lack of gratitude, is actually an acknowledgment that black athletes forged success from their own skill and hard work, and sports should be grateful to them.
Creator
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Katherine Brown
Publisher
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Time Inc.
Source
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Sports Illustrated. July 1, 1968.