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1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Index 1968 Olympics Black Power salute

The 1968 Olympics Human Rights Salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony on October 16, 1968, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. [1]

82 relations: African Americans, Arthur Ashe Courage Award, Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres, Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, Avery Brundage, Barcelona, BBC Four, Black Power, Blue-collar worker, Canadian Football League, Canadian Olympic Committee, CBS Sports Network, Cincinnati Bengals, Dave Zirin, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Doug Roby, Earl Sweatshirt, Equestrian at the Summer Olympics, ESPN.com, ESPY Award, Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Google Books, Harry Edwards (sociologist), Haymarket Books, HiiiPoWeR, History Park at Kelley Park, International Olympic Committee, Jay-Z, Jesse Owens, John Carlos, John Dominis, Julius Patching, Kendrick Lamar, Life (magazine), List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies, Mexico City, Middle Passage, Montreal Alouettes, National Football League, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Nationalteatern, Nazi salute, Newtown, New South Wales, Oberlin College, Olympic Games, Olympic Project for Human Rights, Olympic symbols, Pallbearer, Palm Springs High School, ..., Peter Norman, Peter Perrett, Philadelphia Eagles, Rage Against the Machine, Raised fist, Rigo 23, Salute (2008 film), San Jose State University, Sydney Film Festival, Tarring and feathering, Temple University Press, Testify (Rage Against the Machine song), The Harvard Crimson, The Star-Spangled Banner, The Story of O.J., The Sydney Morning Herald, Time (magazine), Tommie Smith, U.S. national anthem protests, University of Guelph, Vincent Matthews (athlete), Wayne Collett, Władysław Kozakiewicz, West Oakland, Oakland, California, White Australia policy, 1936 Summer Olympics, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1970 NFL Draft, 1972 Olympics Black Power salute, 1972 Summer Olympics, 1984 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics. Expand index (32 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Arthur Ashe Courage Award

The Arthur Ashe Courage Award (sometimes called the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage or Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award) is presented as part of the ESPY Awards.

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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 36 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 12 for women.

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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 meters event at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

At the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the athletics events were held at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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Black Power

Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent.

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Blue-collar worker

In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.

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Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League (CFL; Ligue canadienne de football, LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.

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Canadian Olympic Committee

The Canadian Olympic Committee - COC (Comité olympique canadien - COC) is the private, non-profit organization that represents Canada at the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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CBS Sports Network

CBS Sports Network is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the CBS Corporation.

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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin is an American political sportswriter.

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David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter

David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, KCMG (9 February 1905 – 22 October 1981), styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official, peer, and Conservative Party politician.

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Doug Roby

Douglas Fergusson Roby (March 24, 1898 – March 31, 1992) was an American athlete and Olympics official.

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Earl Sweatshirt

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (born February 24, 1994), better known by his stage name Earl Sweatshirt, is an American rapper and record producer from Los Angeles, California.

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Equestrian at the Summer Olympics

Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN.

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ESPY Award

An ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is an accolade currently presented by the American broadcast television network ABC, and previously ESPN (as of the 2017 ESPY Awards, the latter still airs them in the form of replays), to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony.

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Estadio Olímpico Universitario

Estadio Olímpico Universitario is a multi-purpose stadium located in Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Harry Edwards (sociologist)

Harry Edwards (born November 22, 1942) is an American sociologist and civil rights activist.

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Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books is a non-profit, radical, independent book publisher based in Chicago.

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HiiiPoWeR

"HiiiPower" (also stylised as "HiiiPoWeR") is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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History Park at Kelley Park

History Park in San Jose, California, USA is designed as an indoor/outdoor museum, arranged to appear as a small US town might have in the early 1900s (decade).

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games.

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John Carlos

John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945) is an American former track and field athlete and professional football player.

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John Dominis

John Dominis (June 27, 1921 – December 30, 2013) was an American documentary photographer, war photographer and photojournalist.

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Julius Patching

Julius Lockington "Judy" Patching, AO, OBE (4 January 1917 – 13 February 2009) was an Australian Olympic icon, sports administrator, and businessman.

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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies

The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Middle Passage

The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes (Les Alouettes de Montréal) are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in December 2003.

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Nationalteatern

Nationalteatern is a Swedish progg rock group from the 1970s that featured leftist political lyrics.

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Nazi salute

The Nazi salute, or Hitler salute (Hitler Greeting), is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.

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Newtown, New South Wales

Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Olympic Project for Human Rights

The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) was an American organization established by sociologist Harry Edwards and others, including noted Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, in October 1967.

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Olympic symbols

The Olympic symbols are icons, flags and symbols used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to elevate the Olympic Games.

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Pallbearer

A pallbearer is one of several participants that help carry the casket at a funeral.

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Palm Springs High School

Palm Springs High School is a public high school for grades 9 through 12 located in Palm Springs, California as part of the Palm Springs Unified School District.

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Peter Norman

Peter George Norman (15 June 1942 – 3 October 2006) was an Australian track athlete.

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Peter Perrett

Peter Albert Neil Perrett (born 8 April 1952) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Philadelphia Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Raised fist

The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a symbol of solidarity and support.

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Rigo 23

Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia, 1966) is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political artist residing in San Francisco, California.

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Salute (2008 film)

Salute is a 2008 Australian documentary film written, directed and produced by Matt Norman.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (commonly referred to as San Jose State or SJSU) is a public comprehensive university located in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Sydney, Australia, usually over 12 days in June.

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Tarring and feathering

Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture and humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge.

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Temple University Press

Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

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Testify (Rage Against the Machine song)

"Testify" is a single by rap metal band Rage Against the Machine off their third studio album The Battle of Los Angeles.

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The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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The Story of O.J.

"The Story of O.J." is a song by American hip hop artist Jay-Z from his thirteenth studio album 4:44.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tommie Smith

Tommie C. Smith (born June 6, 1944) is an American former track & field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League.

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U.S. national anthem protests

Protests during the playing of the United States national anthem have had many causes, including civil rights, anti-conscription and anti-war, anti-nationalism, and religious reservations.

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University of Guelph

The University of Guelph (U of G) is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Vincent Matthews (athlete)

Vincent "Vince" Edward Matthews (born December 16, 1947) is an American former sprinter, winner of two Olympic gold medals, at the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Wayne Collett

Wayne Curtis Collett (October 20, 1949 – March 17, 2010) was an African-American Olympic sprinter.

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Władysław Kozakiewicz

Władysław Kozakiewicz (born 8 December 1953) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the pole vault.

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West Oakland, Oakland, California

West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda.

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White Australia policy

The term White Australia policy comprises various historical policies that effectively barred people of non-European descent from emigrating into Australia.

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1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany.

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

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1970 NFL Draft

The 1970 National Football League draft was held January 27–28, 1970, at the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York.

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1972 Olympics Black Power salute

The 1972 Olympics Black Power Salute was a political protest by two US Olympic runners Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett during the 1972 Summer Olympics at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, West Germany.

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1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1972), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972.

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1984 Summer Olympics

The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles (LA), California, United States.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

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