Due Process and Its Role in Amateur Athletics

By Holt Hackney   The impetuses of due process for amateur athletes in America may well have its roots in one defining moment in 1968 when Tommie Smith and John Carlos shocked the world by raising their gloved fists on the victory podium in a Black Power salute in the (1968 Summer) Mexico City Olympic Games.   Smith and Carlos were sent home the next day by USOC officials.   While some saw the Smith and Carlos incident as a racial equality protest, it was much more than that. It