The black power freedom salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics was a protest felt across the world and it remains a symbol against racism and for equality. The two men behind that moment were San ...

(WNDU) - On this final day of Black History Month, WNDU 16 News Now has an exclusive story about a moment in history which ...

Smith and Carlos bowed their heads and raised a fist in a black leather glove ... his role at the time and did not compete at another Olympic games. 4. Smith and Carlos carried Peter Norman ...

Winning the Olympic ... of black power radicalism," says Doug Hartmann, a University of Minnesota sociologist and the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic ...

Norman was the white guy in one of the most famous images of the twentieth century: two African-American athletes, the gold-medal winner Tommie Smith and the bronze-medal winner John Carlos, stand on ...

The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American athletes at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 demonstrated a deeply divided country. The USA was a divided society ...

The 1968 Mexico Olympics has gone down in history for the Black power salute given by African American sprinters, John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Source: Bettmann Archive ...