it was propelled by actions like sncc, the student nonviolent coordinating committee. what they did was bring education and protest together so as to create an intelligent thrust of protest for the black colleges students in the 1960's. so what we have is that producing a person like harry edwards, james farmer, and bill russell, and muhammad ali and others. that gave rise to the prominence that we began to understand later in the 1960's for the black athlete. harry edwards, who started ophr, the olympic project for human rights, corralled a group of people who were once a part of sncc and called the sncc workers and black athletes to come together and laid the foundation which later gave the voice of whom we came to know as tommie smith and john carlos and their prominent protest on october 16, 1968 in mexico city, mexico. >> tell me a little bit about the background. clyde: harry edwards thought it necessary to bring all of the prominent black college athletes, professional athletes together for the purpose of becoming a sports connected civil rights arm to go with w

so sncc laid the foundation for sclc to build off of in 1965. the basement of tabernacle baptist church and the interesting thing is that the church had two faces. it was built by a black architect in the 1920's and during that time, segregation in selma prevented african-americans from entering or exiting a building on broad street, the main street through the city. when tabernacle baptist was built in the 1920's, the architect played a trick on city officials. there is an entrance, the facade has an entrance on broad street, but the real entrance is on mentor avenue, so it is called the church with two faces. and in the basement sncc began doing nonviolence resistant training for students and others interested in protesting for the right to vote. ofsncc didn't work just out tabernacle baptist. in 1960 three they moved over to first baptist church, the black selma,aptist church in down the street from where we are now. it served as headquarters for many mass meetings, including right before freedom day in october 1963 where dorothy height is th

carol rabalais >> christopher peter anthony a racianello >> leonard reghalia >> regine raggio >> laura snccichael ragusa >> peter raimondi frank >> harry raines. >> lisa raines. ehtesham raja >> salsa ragu >> lucas rambosek >> maria ramirez. >> harry ramose. visnoo ramsaroop >> debra ransaour >> alfred todd frankie. >> adarand. >> jonathan randall. sheyas ranganeth >> ayanna rappaport. >> rhonda rasmussen. >> robert rasmussen. >> amini rasool a >> mark rasweiler >> david allen james rathkey >> and my and maria. we love and miss you. >> my mom, maureen lyons olson who was at woodstock 50 years ago this summer. you said you were born cool and you're still cool, we love you. [applause] >> william rob. >> gerard bradley. >> alexei -- >> sarah red heifer. >> michelle marie reed. >> judith and reese. >> donald day reagan. >> robert m reagan. >> thomas michael reagan. >> christian reaganhard. >> howard reich. >> greg reedy. >> james riley. >> kevin riley. >> timothy riley. >> joseph raina. >> thomas rainig >> frank bennett reisman >> joshua scott reiss >> john reo >> john thomas resta. >> sylvia r