1968 Olympics| Striking a Blow for Freedom: The Courageous Story of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Feat. Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics Documentary

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Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics Documentary

TOMMY SMITH AND JHON CARLOS — Tommie Smith and John Carlo

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Supplemental I : ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. History Dissertations, Department of History

Supplemental II : Silent Gesture The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Smith Tommie)

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A ‘major disturbance’ broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson (R), a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from their rock-walled enclosure. Jackson was killed in the escape attempt, the other prisoner gave up and was recaptured. The Soledad Brothers are three black convicts charged with slaying a guard at the Soledad State Prison in January 1970. They are (L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.