The black power freedom salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics was a protest felt across the world and it remains a symbol against racism and for equality. The two men behind that moment were San ...

(WNDU) - On this final day of Black History Month, WNDU 16 News Now has an exclusive story about a moment in history which still resonates today. It all started at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

as the moment at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics when U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the winner's podium and gave a Black Power salute in protest at continued racial oppression ...

Early in Matt Norman's documentary about the controversy surrounding the Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics - and in particular, the involvement of the Australian silver medallist ...

Winning the Olympic ... of black power radicalism," says Doug Hartmann, a University of Minnesota sociologist and the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic ...

Smith and Carlos bowed their heads and raised a fist in a black leather glove ... his role at the time and did not compete at another Olympic games. 4. Smith and Carlos carried Peter Norman ...

While Tommie Smith and John Carlos have become known throughout the world for their black power salute at the 1968 Olympics, the athlete who stood with them ...

The race riots of the mid 1960s and the Black Power salute given by two American athletes at the Mexico Olympics in 1968 demonstrated a deeply divided country. The USA was a divided society ...