FWIW I started reading abt this as a kid after seeing the 1984 TV movie The Jesse Owens Story, which I do prefer to the feature film Racehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/860914977489776642 …
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Tommie Smith said he tried to write to Owens and open a dialogue after all that died down bc Owens had always been one of his heroes
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And Owens later reversed his position, saying "The only thing for a black man in 1970 to be was militant"
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