1968Olympics

= =  = [|1968 Olympics] = = =



 =What happened at the 1968 Olympics? =

 
 * ====1968 Olympics were during a controversial time ====
 * ====Athletes were going to protest the Olympics, but then they decided not to ====
 * ====Tommie Smith and John Carlos are the two brave athletes ====
 * ====They were 200-m runners ====
 * ====Tommie Smith had a time of 19.83 (world record then) ====
 * ====When they played the United States National Anthem Carlos and Smith bowed their heads, wore gloves on opposite hands and did the [|Black Power salute] ====
 * ====Both of them wore no shoes and black socks to represent black poverty ====
 * ====Smith wore a black scarf for black pride and Carlos had the top of his tracksuit unzipped to show unity with blue collar workers ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(204, 26, 244);">"Black Power" became popular in 1960's ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(198, 45, 240);">Black Panthers were established in 1966 as a local group but became national when one of the co-founders went to prison for manslaughter in 1967 ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(212, 35, 246);">Group declined in 1970's ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(205, 38, 242);">International Olympic Committee suspended the two athletes from the United States Track Team and Olympic Village ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(206, 34, 247);">Tommie Smith and John Carlos suffered many abuse and anonymous death threats when they were home ====
 * ====<span style="color: rgb(198, 0, 255);">Are admired with a statue at San Jose University and also received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2008 ESPN ESPY's ====