in the USA,before segragation ended,were blacks allowed to compete in olympics,or did they not get formal trai
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George Poage was the first African-American Olympic medalist from the U.S. He won bronze medals in both the 200 and 400 meter hurdles in St. Louis in 1904. That was the 3rd Olympiad.\n\nJohn Baxter "Doc" Taylor,won a gold medal as part of the 4 x 400 m relay team in 1908.
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The U.S. was one, a newly discovered continent.  It was a grand adventure.  Also, the newly formed government was a grand experiment.  Never before had a government been formed on the theory of democracy in such a large scale.  It afforded freedoms almost unheard of around the world.  Freedoms like, no matter what economic status you came from, you could make yourself better in America.   And, no matter what status you were born to, whether a prince or a pauper, you could succeed in America.  The struggles over racism weren't only over blacks, but included Irish, and Italians, and Asians.  Even with these racial struggles the opportunities afforded every individual were far better than most folks could find in their home countries.
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1936\n\nThe 1936 Berlin Olympic Games had been handed to Berlin before the Nazis came to power but now it was the perfect opportunity for Hitler to demonstrate to the world, how efficient the Nazi Germany was. It was also the perfect opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race. \n\nThe Berlin Olympic Games gave the Nazis an opportunity to show off to the world as 49 countries were competing bringing with them their assorted media. For Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, it was the perfect scenario.\n\nThe vast Olympic stadium was completed on time and held 100,000 spectators. 150 other new Olympic buildings were completed on time for the event. The  anti-Semitic posters that had littered Germany before the games had disappeared. Signs that stated "Jews not welcome here" were not longer visible - anything was done to ensure that the Games went smoothly and caused no upset.\n\nIn fact, the upset was caused in the stadium itself. The 'racially inferior' Owens won four gold medals; in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4 x 100m relay. During the Games he broke 11 Olympic records and defeated Lutz Lang in a very close long jump final. The German was the first to congratulate Owens when the long jump final was over. There were 10 African American members of the American athletics team. Between them they won 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and 3 bronze - more than any national team won in track and field at the Games, except America itself. Hitler refused to place the gold medal around Owen's neck.
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Landless white men: 1856 \nNon-whites: 1870 \nWomen: 1920 \nNative Americans: 1924 \nAdults between 18 and 21: 1971\n\nThe Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, one of three adopted in response to the American Civil War, prevented any state from denying the right to vote to any male citizen twenty-one years old or older on account of his race. Particularly in the South, however, many practical barriers were erected to this becoming a reality. Most abused was the literacy test. The ability to read and write the English language was not banned as a basis for determining voter eligibility by this amendment and blacks were often denied the right to vote on this basis. Even literate blacks were often told they had "failed" such a test, if in fact, it had even actually been administered. On the other hand, illiterate whites were often allowed to vote through a "Grandfather clause" which waived literacy requirments if one's grandfather had been a qualified voter, which for most blacks in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War was an impossibility. Selective enforcement of the poll tax was frequently also used to disqualify black voters, a fact which led to the eventual adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment. Intimidation tactics were employed to bar blacks from voting as well, such as "night rides" by the Ku Klux Klan. Economic tactics such as eviction from rental housing or termination of employment were also used . Such practices did not fully end until the American Civil Rights Movement scored one of its greatest triumphs when it encouraged the passage by Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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IN THE 1950'S THERE WASN'T TOO MANY WHITE COLLEGES THAT RECRUITED BLACK ATHLETES MOST ATTENDED HISTORICLY BLACK COLLEGES LIKE MORGAN STATE, HOWARD, MOREHOUSE, TUSKSUGEE, NC A&T WHITE SCHOOLS DIDN'T THINK BLACK ATHLETES WERE SMART ENOUGH TO ATTEND THIER SCHOOLS
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Women were in 1920 nationally.  Although a few states started allowing it earlier.  Wyoming was actually the first to allow it.  Blacks were allowed to vote after of course, the civil war.
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The Olympics games were not originally an international competition, they were held with in Greece.  They used to be male only competitions, and the men had to compete naked to prove they were male after a woman competed and beat some men somewhere back in history before they had to do it nude.\nThere are many more sports in the modern olympics than there were in the classic games, tho there are some that remain, mainly athletic events such as javelin, discus, jumps and running events.\nDuring the classical period the olympic movement did not have the same ideals as the modern one, and there were no winter olympics.\nThe 5 interlocking rings is a new symbol, though there was a torch in the classical period.\nThe games from classical greece were held to honour the gods, now they are used to spread a message about good sportsmanship and international co-operation.\nRules have become rationalised in the modern olympics, no doubt in the classic games the final decision was made by an important official, probably with a few favourites....
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I cannot be responsible for my ancestors' decisions. I can, however, be responsible for myself and make sure that I don't make the same mistakes. Of course, blacks have rights, but they don't have any more right to monetary compensation than the Jewish or Irish who suffered racism in a different context. Slavery is wrong. Period. Sadly, slavery is as old as history itself, but that should only mean that we should always fight against it.
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Very, but it can't happen because we whites abolished slavery.  No black alive in America today ever was a slave, and no white alive in America today ever owned one.  I don't see how the blacks alive today have any standing at all regarding slavery 140 years ago.\n\nAnd take a look at Africa, and consider our immigration picture.  Do you think blacks in America today would rather their family had stayed in Africa, where slavery continued much longer than here?  Granted what happened to their ancestors was terrible, for those alive today, are they worse off than if their families had remained?
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Hell no. Remember that during the segregation era, southern states hindered the advancement of equality by declaring they were "sovereign states" and didn't had to obey federal law. I support states rights to some limit and I think when states conflict with federal government then we are in trouble.
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jazzie606 and ong jon  pretty much have it right.\n\nBasketball is not a 'black' game... it's a city game.\n\nHistorically, whatever 'group' of people comprise the majority of inner city populations, also happened to be the dominant players in basketball.\n\nBack in the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of inner city residents were Jewish, Jewish players dominated basketball. As we moved into the 1940s and 1950s, Jews moved out of the inner cities, blacks from the south moved into the inner cities, and basketball was soon dominated by black players.\n\nI remember on an NBC special re: the dominance of blacks in sports, they interviewed a Jewish player from the 1930s, and he said that "we used to say that every Jewish kid was born with a basketball in his hands"... of course, the same was later said about blacks.\n\nBut basketball is a city game (don't need much space or equipment to play), and this is why the majority of the best/most exciting players come from big ciites.
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The first instance of it was in 1866 appearing under the umbrella of civil rights laws.   \n  \nOriginally, civil rights programs were enacted to help African Americans become full citizens of the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal; the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law; the Fifteenth Amendment forbids racial discrimination in access to voting. The 1866 Civil Rights Act guarantees every citizen "the same right to make and enforce contracts ... as is enjoyed by white citizens ... " \n\nIn 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld a "separate, but equal" doctrine that proved to be anything but equal for African Americans. The decision marked the end of the post-Civil War reconstruction era as Jim Crow laws spread across the South. \n\nIn 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 which outlawed segregationist hiring policies by defense-related industries which held federal contracts. Roosevelt's signing of this order was a direct result of efforts by Black trade union leader, A. Philip Randolph. \n\nDuring 1953 President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Government Contract Compliance urged the Bureau of Employment Security "to act positively and affirmatively to implement the policy of nondiscrimination . . . ." \n\nThe 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. The actual phrase "affirmative action" was first used in President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Executive Order 11246 which requires federal contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." \n\nIn 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women. \nOther equal protection laws passed to make discrimination illegal were the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title II and VII of which forbid racial discrimination in "public accommodations" and race and sex discrimination in employment, respectively; and the 1965 Voting Rights Act adopted after Congress found "that racial discrimination in voting was an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of the country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution." \n\nMuch of the opposition to affirmative action is framed on the grounds of so-called "reverse discrimination and unwarranted preferences." In fact, less than 2 percent of the 91,000 employment discrimination cases pending before the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission are reverse discrimination cases. Under the law as written in Executive Orders and interpreted by the courts, anyone benefitting from affirmative action must have relevant and valid job or educational qualifications.
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OOOOH. I have asked similar questions, and the answers I get are, for instance, a large part of the inner city popultaion is Black.I think it's safe to say that inner city sports, I.E. school football and basketball will be played and often perfected, by black people. swimming is not often considered a sport for the inner city, nor is skiing or snowboarding.\nFor the record, I am one of three white people on my street, I live in the city, and I love all of my neighbors.(Except that kid that keeps trying to piss my dog off!)
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If there are any black people who actually suffered under slavery still out there and alive, yes. That would be fair. As for blacks alive today, no. They suffer no hardships due to slavery that ended over a century ago. and never forget, it wasn't a brave and Nobel "slave revolt" that ended slavery, it was thousands of White men who died to enforce the emancipation proclamation. America already paid the price, in blood.
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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This is the only information I can find regarding the event at Barcelona 1992 that you are after:\n\nUNIFIED TEAM (EX USSR)  (Gold)\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA  (Silver)\nGREAT BRITAIN  (Bronze)\n\nFor details, you have have to contact the Spanish Olympic Committee
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GEORGE POAGE\nGeorge Coleman Poage was  the first Black Olympic medal winner. He won a bronze medal in the third Olympic games in St. Louis, Missouri. \n\nDEBI THOMAS\nShe was the first African American to win the national and the world championships as well as the first African American to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games (it wasn't a gold medal).\n\nVONETTA FLOWERS\nVonetta Flowers became the first African-American GOLD medallist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. \nShe and partner Jull Brakken won the inaugural women's two-person bobsled event.