'He is an everyman hero'
On Sportshour we are building up to the Olympics in Paris by heading back over a century when the stories of the Games were not so well documented.
Sprinter Harry Edwards was the first black man to represent Great Britain and the first to win medals when he picked up two bronze's in Antwerp in 1920.
Broadcaster Neil Duncanson has written a book which document's Edwards' move to America and the impact he then made off the track. Neil tells Sportshour's Caroline Barker how Harry fought over school segregation and running food programmes in Harlem.
Photo: A logo of Olympics is pictured on the third day of the 141st IOC session in Mumbai, India, 17 October, 2023. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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