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Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black power movement. Now John Carlos tells his own version of the story, in conjunction with Dave Zirin, author of the groundbreaking People's History of Sports in the United States (The New Press, 2009, available from Turnaround). Carlos' eye-opening and immensely readable autobiography finally introduces the man behind the salute.

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Contents Foreword by Cornel West • ix Preface by Dave Zirin • xi Introduction: To Sleep with Anger • 1 One: Harlem World • 5" Two: Street Level Protest: You Have Forty-Eight Hours . . .• 33" Three: Trouble in Texas • 59 Four: 1968 • 77 Five: The Medal Stand • 103 Six: The Unraveling • 129 Seven: Efforts at Resurrection • 155 Eight: Save Your Redemption • 167 Afterword by Dave Zirin • 175 Appendix: John W. Carlos’s Track and Field Records

The John Carlos Story

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    A Paperback by Cornell West, John Carlos, Dave Zinn

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      Publisher Haymarket Books
      Published 5 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9781608462247
      978-1608462247
      ISBN-10 1608462242

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black power movement. Now John Carlos tells his own version of the story, in conjunction with Dave Zirin, author of the groundbreaking People's History of Sports in the United States (The New Press, 2009, available from Turnaround). Carlos' eye-opening and immensely readable autobiography finally introduces the man behind the salute.

      Table of Contents

      Contents Foreword by Cornel West • ix Preface by Dave Zirin • xi Introduction: To Sleep with Anger • 1 One: Harlem World • 5" Two: Street Level Protest: You Have Forty-Eight Hours . . .• 33" Three: Trouble in Texas • 59 Four: 1968 • 77 Five: The Medal Stand • 103 Six: The Unraveling • 129 Seven: Efforts at Resurrection • 155 Eight: Save Your Redemption • 167 Afterword by Dave Zirin • 175 Appendix: John W. Carlos’s Track and Field Records

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