#Tommie Smith

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iconic 1968 Summer Olympics moment with Tommie Smith (1st), Peter Norman (2nd), and John Carlos (3rd)

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Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, cut from the US Olympic team in Mexico City after a demonstration on the victory stand, arrive in Los Angeles, Ed Widdis, 1968

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“I had no regrets, I have no regrets, I will never have any regrets. We were there to stand up for human rights and to stand up for Black Americans.” - Tommie Smith

“We were trying to wake the country up and wake the world up too… How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?” - John Carlos

“Every man is born equal and should be treated as human. I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.” - Peter Norman

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On this day in 1968: American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos won the gold and bronze medals for the 200-meter race at the Olympics in Mexico City. 🏃🏾‍♂️🏅 Upon taking their places on the podium and receiving their medals, Smith and Carlos both bowed their heads and raised their fists. This moment is regarded as one of the most famous demonstrations of political activism in the history of both the Olympics and American sports overall. ✊🏾✊🏾

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THANK YOU, TOMMIE SMITH AND JOHN CARLOS.

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Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith the monumental sculpture Bridge

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Silent Protest from Tommie Smith & John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics Mexico. ✊🏿

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Congratulations to the 2023 Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Award winner and honorees! 

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"Man, I didn't do what you guys did." He said, "But I was there in heart and soul to support what you did. I feel it's only fair that you guys go on and have your statues built there, and I would like to have a blank spot there and have a commemorative plaque stating that I was in that spot. But anyone that comes thereafter from around the world and going to San Jose State that support the movement, what you guys had in '68, they could stand in my spot and take the picture."

The White Man in the Photo of the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics

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Out this week: Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice (Norton, $17.95):

Olympian Tommie Smith teams with Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile to tell the real-life story of the stand Smith and fellow Olympian John Carlos took against racism during the 1968 Olympics.

See what other comics and graphic novels arrive in stores this week.

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16 ottobre 1968 il giorno dei pugni al cielo

È  il 16 ottobre 1968. Tommie Smith e John Carlos, due  atleti statunitensi, che facevano parte dell’ Olympic Project for Human Rights , decisero di correre alle Olimpiadi nonostante molti altri atleti, appartenenti alla stessa organizzazione, avessero deciso di non partecipare a causa  dell’assassinio di Martin Luther King  (avvenuto il 4 aprile dello stesso anno). Smith arrivò primo (stabilendo…

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Olympic Gold Medalists still raises Clinched Fist 56-Years Later.

Paris, June 11, 2024, by Socrates George Kazolias Tommie Smith shocked the world of sports when, after winning the two-hundred-meter Gold Medal in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, he raised a black gloved fist and bowed his head during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner to protest racism in the United States. Third-placed African American John Carlos did the same. Tommie Smith and John…

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Tommie Smith wordt tachtig...

Vandaag wordt de Amerikaanse atleet Tommie Smith tachtig jaar. Hij was de winnaar van de 200m op de Olympische Spelen van Mexico in 1968. Op het podium bracht hij samen met de derde, zijn landgenoot John Carlos (die overigens vandaag ook jarig is, hij is één jaar jonger dan Smith), de Black Panther-groet als protest tegen de positie van zwarten in de Amerikaanse maatschappij. Continue reading…