Olympic Project for Human Rights

The Olympic Project for Human Rights ( OPHR ) is a black human rights organization in the United States, which was founded in the fall of 1967 by the Black Sports and sociology professor Harry Edwards (San José State University).

Among the most famous members was the multiple world record holder in athletics Tommie Smith and bronze medalist of Mexico John Carlos, the opposite of the podium in Mexico with a wooden chain, which should remind you of slavery, an olive branch and with the so-called Black Panther fist racism demonstrated.

1968 called on the organization to all Black athletes to boycott the Olympic Games in Mexico.

One of the central demands of the OPHR included:

The boxing champion's title had been removed because he had refused to do military service before.

• 2 The dismissal of the IOC President Avery Brundage.

For his commitment to the participation of the United States at the 1936 Olympics in the Third Reich, he stood in the criticism.

• 3 The exclusion of apartheid States South Africa and Rhodesia from the games.