John Carlos

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• Amateurism, Sneaker Money, and the Forgotten Protest of the 1968 Games

  by Harry Blutstein

  Tommie Smith and John Carlos are remembered for their gloved-fist protest of American racism at the 1968 Mexico City Games. But they also demonstrated against the hypocritical and exploitative rules of amateurism and opened the door to endorsement payments for Olympians.

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• SOURCE: Knightlab
  6/29/2021
  

  Fists of Freedom: A Storymap of Responses to the Olympics Protest of John Carlos and Tommie Smith

  by Lou Moore

  Louis Moore presents an interactiv graphic exploration of media responses to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics protest of American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith.