Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Negro, All-Ivy Harvard football players have written a letter to the New York Times is support of the proposed boycott of the 1968 Olympics by certain Negro athletes...
...letter, written by Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, John D. Tyson '69, and Stanley E. Greenidge '68, criticizes a column on the boycott by Times sports-writer Arthur Daley as insensitive "to the morale stamina of black athletes in this country." The letter appeared yesterday...
Williamson said last night that there were racist implications in the reaction to the proposed boycott. "People are reluctant to look at black athletes as individuals," he declares, "it's easier to think of them in terms of points scored and yards gained...
Williamson emphasized the amount of training and dedication an Olympic performer needs and concluded that not all black athletes could be expected to make the sacrifice of a boycott. But he added, "It's a very limited kind of pride you build on points and scores. It dies quickly. But the kind of pride they are building is something that is going to be important for years to themselves and to their people...
Community agencies participating in the boycott would refuse to reveal information about people they help, he said. He also urged individuals not to give factual information to Joint Center researchers or reply to surveys taken by them...