1968 Olympics Magnets

1968 olympics

FIGHT THE POWER // Black Power Salute 1968 Olympics

1968 Olympics salute

Op-Art logo for the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games

FIGHT THE POWER // Black Power Salute

Mexico Olympics 1968 ofificial logo

Official sports events pictographs for the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico.

FIGHT THE POWER // Colin Kaepernick Kneeling Protest

Fight the Power // 1968 Black Power Salute Tribute

Mexico 68 Olympic Games logo

Gold Medallist Tommie Smith, (center) and Bronze medallist John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200m in the 1968 Summer Olympics wearing Olympic Project for Human Rights badges. Silver medallist Peter Norman from Australia (left) joins them. The Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics was a protest made by the African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos; the athletes made the raised fist gesture at the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. The Australian competitor, Peter Norman, who was neither Black nor American, also wore a human rights badge on his shirt during the ceremony to show his support to the two Americans. The event was one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the ...