rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in reno. you know he was unsuccessful. he failed. well, in the 1980s, there emerged a few white athletes who were thought of somewhat in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athlete s suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think with regards to race. perhaps racial issues had not gone away. the united states may have entered what commentators were calling the post-civil rights er
watch on demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. now, historian matthew andrews of the university of north carolina at chapel hill talks about how the racial tensions of the 1980s were reflected in the sports. particularly when white and black athletes faced off in boxing matches and basketball games and became symbols for racial disagreements. his class is about an hour and ten minutes. okay. we re going to go ahead and get started. we ve been exploring the question of gender and women s rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in
that each child get what is they deserve and gets what they deserve and that s an education that prepares them for success after graduation. the d.c. council still must confirm the nomination to make it official. he is expected to start february 1st. chattanooga is in mourning. federal investigators arrived today at the scene of the school bus crash that killed five children. as mark strawsman police a mark strawsman reports. reporter: a tow truck hauled away the wreckage of the bus that carried 35 woodmore elementary school children. it had flipped over on its side and wrapped around a tree killing one boy and four girls. three that were in the fourth grade and one that is in kindergarten. and one that is in the first grade. reporter: a mother who lost one of her three children on the bus told cbs news that the driver asked the students if they were ready to die. my daughter says right before the bus flipped, that he was speeding around the curve. reporter:
symbols around which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. this class is about one hour and 10 minutes. matthew andrews: we have been exploring the question of gender and women s rights and sports. we will return our focus to race relations. we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980 s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on it. jim jefferies in 1910. he comes out of retirement s and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson. was unsuccessful. he failed. in the 1980 s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think. the united states may have entered what commentators were calling a post-civil rights era. the 1970 s and the 1980
when white and black athletes faced off in basketball and .oxing which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. this class is about one hour and 10 minutes. matthew: we have been exploring the question of gender and women s rights and sports. we will return our focus to race relations. we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980 s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on it. jim jefferies in 1910. he comes out of retirement s and white racedeem the war righ and defeat jack johnson. was unsuccessful. he failed. in the 1980 s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to thank. think. states may have entered what commentators were calling a post-civil