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Colin Kaepernick, Harry Edwards and why 1968’s protests still matter

San Jose Mercury News | September 8, 2018

Related Topics: Colin Kaepernick, Protest, Nike, Inc., Martin Luther King Jr., Echo Summit, Olympic Project for Human Rights, Jackie Robinson, Smithsonian Institution, Barack Obama, Civil rights movement

For sports sociologist Harry Edwards, there is a clear relationship between the uproar over Colin Kaepernick and Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign and the protests of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics.

Sports sociologist Harry Edwards describes some of the displayed items — including pages of his FBI file — to a group at the opening reception for “The Power of Protest” at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Main Library. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)

“The police violence that is driving protests today was driving protests in 1968,” Edwards said at the opening of “The Power of Protest,” an exhibition at the Dr.

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