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Wed, 10.16.1968

Black Athletes Suspended From The Olympic Games

Smith and Carlos send a message

On this date in 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Black sprinters, were suspended from the Olympic Games in Mexico City.

They were suspended after holding their fists in a Black Power salute while receiving their medals at the awards ceremony. The athletes' actions came to symbolize the Black Power movement in sports.

New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

Where are we to go when this is done? Will we slip into old, accustomed ways, finding remembered notches, one by one? Thrashing a hapless way through quickening haze? Who is to... SONNET by Alfred A. Duckett.
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