The Olympic Games are supposed to bring the countries of the world together, but that isn't always what happens. Several times the Games have been canceled, and at other times, boycotts have led some countries to hold their own alternative competitions. Plus: we mark the birthday of the great Black scientist and inventor Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson.

...And Meanwhile In Philadelphia (Sports Illustrated)

Spartakiade: A Bolshevik alternative to the Olympics (The Charnel House)

Counter Olympics (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

GANEFO I Sports and Politics in Djakarta (RAND Corporation)

Boycott nations will stage own games (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Google News)

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Black-Inventor.com)

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