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| Item Title | Clark letter re: suspension of Tommie Smith and John Carlos from Olympic Games |
| Description | 3 p. A form letter typed on San Jose State College, Robert D. Clark, President letterhead and signed by him, reiterating his opinion on the suspension of Tommie Smith and John Carlos for their controversial action at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and citing various articles in the media. |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| LC Subject | Olympics
Civil rights movements
Blacks in mass media
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| Theme | Civil Rights and Race
Free Speech and Demonstration
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| People | Smith, Tommie, 1944-
Carlos, John, 1945-
Brundage, Avery
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| Corporate Names | San Jose State College
Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico)
United States Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
National observer (Silver Spring, Md.)
San Jose Mercury-news
KLIV (Radio station : San Jose, Calif.)
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| Place Names | Eugene, Oregon
Mexico City (Mexico)
San Jose (Calif.)
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| Author | Clark, Robert Donald, 1910-2005
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| Date of Original | 1968-10-22 |
| Rights | (c) University of Oregon. Items in this collection are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ). Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is required.
Those documents authored by individuals or entities outside of the University of Oregon may be subject to copyright restrictions by the authors or their assigns. |
| Repository | University of Oregon Libraries - Special Collections and University Archives
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| Collection Title | Robert D. Clark Papers
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| Collection Identifier | Coll. 285
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| Box Number | 22 |
| Folder Name | Black Athletes, Olympic Boycott, 1968 |
| Ambrosia Folder | 285.bx22.4 |
| Type | Text; |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | English; |
| Additional Physical Formats Held by UO | Print version available; |
| Publisher | University of Oregon; |
| Digital Collection | University of Oregon. Libraries. University of Oregon Office of the President |
