Longhorn Legend Cory Redding joined a panel which included the oldest living African-American Olympic medalist, Herbert Douglas, Jr.
In the shadow of the Nazi flag at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, nine African-American track and field athletes earned 13 medals for the United States, asserting strength and patriotism at a time when they were still not afforded the same basic rights as white citizens in their home country.
But it was the success they achieved long after standing atop the Olympic podium — the degrees they obtained from prestigious universities such as Stanford and the University of California Berkeley, the lengthy careers in business and politics and their efforts to advance civil rights for African-Americans — that set the stage for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of Black athletes Tuesday evening at The University of Texas campus.