Draw/Stick pictures to explain how the two American athletes showed their anger towards racism in the 1968 Olympics
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they offended by wearing black and with closed fists to their hearts and not wearing shoes
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Two American athletes showed their anger towards racism in the 1968 Olympics
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- Two African-American athletes s had raised their fists at the Olympic podium on the day they had won. The photograph was taken after a 200 meter race that was held at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Mexico City. This turned John Carlos & Tommie Smith from "track-and-field" stars into the centre of a controversy over their "raised-fist salute", a black power symbol & the human rights movement at large
- Smith & Carlos, respectively winners of gold & bronze, chose to use their medal victories as a platform for the social problems which at the time rattled the US. Racial tensions were strong & the Black Power Revolution was replaced by the movement for civil rights. The passive nature of the Civil rights campaign was disconcerted by African-Americans like Smith and Carlos. They were looking for active ways of agitation and promoted racial solidarity, black nationalism and drastic reform instead of social reform.
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