20 Questions: Harry Edwards

August, 1988

Bearded, 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 conversations with baseball c...

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