Black power salute!


	Black power salute!

hitchhiker08

3-18-2008 12:38 AM

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civil rights, martin luther king, olympics 1968

hitchhiker08 says:

A gesture that will be remembered for generations to come - realization a bit longer to dawn...

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In 1968 the civil rights issue was high in American politics, Robert F Williams, a leader in the civil rights movement, had coined the phrase “black power”, and in April Martin Luther King had been assassinated.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></p> <P><FONT size="6" face="helvetica" color="BLUE"><FONT size="4" face="helvetica" color="BLUE"><FONT size="3" face="Comic Sans MS" color="BLUE"><FONT size="2" face="Comic Sans MS" color="BLUE">In October that year the Olympic Games were held in Mexico City and Tommy Smith and John Carlos were members of the American team.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/photoap.htm">The two athletes were black and when Smith won the gold medal in the 200m race in a world record time and Carlos won the bronze, they courageously agreed to perform a black power salute on the podium when they were awarded their medals, knowing full well that their action would be highly controversial.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/photoap.htm">They wore black gloves and as they stood on the podium with the Star Spangled Banner playing, they performed the salute with heads bowed.
Silver medallist, Australian Peter Norman, also wore an OPHR badge in support of the two Americans.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBDD35CA-903D-4544-BBDB-4066167317CC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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