Episode 81: Dr. Harry Edwards in Conversation with ESPN's Michael Fletcher

from On The Ball with Andrew Maraniss · host Andrew Maraniss, Vanderbilt University, Sports and Society Initiative

In Panel 1 of our third annual Sports & Activism online symposium, Michael Fletcher of ESPN interviews legendary sports sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards about founding the field of study, the 1968 Olympic protest, and the state of sports activism. Olympian John Carlos also makes an impromptu appearance during the recording. The symposium is a collaboration between the Vanderbilt Sports & Society Initiative and the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at the Vanderbilt Divinity School.

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