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By ART CARTER
Syndicated Columnist
This article is the first in a
three-part series.
Few persons ate still
around who remember the
opening ceremony in Los
-Angeles in 1932, as the
great, wmie-roned chorus
sang stirring strains of
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
and a dazzling stream
of Olympic athletes from
?around the world emer ged
from a tunnel and spread
over the green turf of the
big bowl while spectators
cheered themselves hoarse.
Vice President Charles Curtis
read the Olympic oath
and cited the spirit of the
Olympics. The Big Games
were underway.
The 1932 Olympics were
staged in the immediate
wake of the stock market
crash as the nation struggl
ed to recover from the
worst economic depression
in its history. It, too, was a
time when disaster, labor
problems, joblessness and
irrational behavior patterns
among the rich and the
poor dominated the news.
It also was a timejn U.S.
history when segregation
reigned in grand style and,
in some states,( legally. It
was jn that atmosphere that
the first black to win an
Olympic championship on
American soil broke into
history. He was Kddie
Tolan, who captured gold
medals in both Olympic
sprints, the 100 and 200
meters.
Trials and triumphs have
marked the remarkable and
historic participation of
black men and women
athletes down through
01 y m p i c history since
George C. Poage won
bronze medals at the 1904
Olympics in the 200- and
400-meter hurdles.
Winning a gold medal in
the Olympic Games is the
highest award an amateur
athlete can obtain. It
climaxes years of preparation
and preliminary contests
prior to the one big
event which comes every
four years.
Hundreds of gold medals
nave oeen won in many different
events. To some winners,
winning the Olympics
marks the start of a new
career as a professional
where the rewards are riches
and more fame.
This has happened to
some black athletes whc
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aved the way for black Olympians to Olympian,
Rudolph, the most dominant female the 1960 R
mnio niAnnni*o? Dm
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were gold medal-winners numerous black winners
mainly in one athletic event: wind up with gold medals
boxing, others have return- and gold memories. And
ed to their earlier pursuits, they simply fade from the
seeking degrees in the
schools they previously attended
or following a The Black <
previously-sought profes- " AS
sion, and still others, ap
plauded b> their peers fpr picture when the headlines
their accomplishments, fade.
have found rich rewards in In this article, we have
business. tried to locate some of the
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Ralph Metealfe, left, and Jesse Owens
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Many blacks have coin- Olympic champions,
peted in events that have no especially the gold medalfuture
professionally, and winners, to find out how
once the Olympics end, the Olympic movement
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helped or hurt their citizens opposed the locaendeavors,
and whether or tion of the Owens monu*
not the Olympics helped ment on city hall property
them down a path of in Oakville, Ala.
Ironically, the name of
Jesse Owens is hammered
Olympians deep in the stone Marathon
ipeclakSeries Gate of the Berlin Stadium,
and it appears there mote
achievement and success. often even than that of
What we've found is that Hitler. The feats of Owens
to some, it has been a are almost without parallel
lodestar; to others it has in Olympic history,
been a series of problems, Certainly no individual
but generally there have ever so completely
been gains for most in the dominated the scene_as.did:
post-Olympic period. i the great sprinter from
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