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(SPORT--TRACK.) TOMMIE SMITH & JOHN CARLOS. Black Power Salute. Press photograph, 8-1/2 x 7 inches, with a short blurb from the newspaper that used it on the reverse. Mexico City, 1968
"Black gloved, hands raised in racial protest, American Negro runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos stare downward during playing of the Star Spangled Banner after receiving gold and bronze medals'--from the newspaper that ran this photo. Smith and Carlos earned a place in history for this powerful gesture the state of race relations in the U. S. In his autobiography, Tommie Smith stated that 'The raised fist was not a 'Black Power salute' but a 'Human Rights Salute.''
