Re-typed copy of two letters into a single document from Stanley V. Wright, Track and Field Committee, Athletic Director to Ray Gould of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) in New York, NY dated May 12, 1976 and to Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, Chairman, Men's Track and Field Committee, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States in Durham, N.C. dated January 22, 1976. The letter to Dr. Walker says I also received a letter dated January 13, from Bob Lafferty, confirming with you that I would write a letter regarding the vote taken in New Orleans. The letter to Dr. Walker says I was both shocked and appalled at the vote, although I knew the issue would reach the floor in the Men's Track and Field...
Re-typed copy of two letters into a single document from Stanley V. Wright, Track and Field Committee, Athletic Director to Ray Gould of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) in New York, NY dated May 12, 1976 and to Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, Chairman, Men's Track and Field Committee, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States in Durham, N.C. dated January 22, 1976. The letter to Dr. Walker says I also received a letter dated January 13, from Bob Lafferty, confirming with you that I would write a letter regarding the vote taken in New Orleans. The letter to Dr. Walker says I was both shocked and appalled at the vote, although I knew the issue would reach the floor in the Men's Track and Field Committee; but it was impossible for me to understand the impetus behind the move for the AAU to send track and field athletes at this time to South Africa. The letter to Dr. Walker says my trip to South Africa in April, 1973, was enlightening, stimulating, and at the same time, degrading; my main purpose in going to South Africa was to see it myself and to get the inner feeling of what was really going on in sports there; no matter how you look at it, apartheid is still the king of the day in South Africa, and no matter how you spell or dissect apartheid, in my opinion it is racism; as I said before, the South African Games were presented by the South African government as a multi-racial event; I refute this concept 100%; the South African Games attempted to present the South African government in a good light, and, in my opinion that attempt failed - especially in track and field. The document says Mr. Wright is a member of Administration, United States Olympic team at the Olympic Games to be held in Montreal in 1976; Former Coach U.S. Olympic Track Team - Munich, 1972; Member-National Committee, American Committee on Africa). [This document was apparently made by the American Committee on Africa by re-typing all or part of the two letters.]
