20 Questions: Harry Edwards
August, 1988
20 Questions: Harry EdwardsBearded, egg-bald and huge (6'8", 260 pounds), sports sociology professor Harry Edwards looks like a cross between Isaac Hayes and Paul Bunyan. The organizer of the black protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics--which climaxed in Tommie Smith and John Carlos' black-power salute on the victory stand--Edwards has become the principal torchbearer for minority athletes in America. In that capacity, he is kept busier than the Chicago Cubs bull pen. After long phone co...