"On October 16, 1968, after finishing first and third respectively in the 200-meter dash at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos ascended the medal podium in black socks and thrust their black-gloved fists high into the night. Their act disrupted an American Cold War triumph and transformed it into an iconic moment of Black anti-racist protest."⁠ ⁠ In the week John Carlos turns 78 and Tommie Smith 79, follow our bio link to read more about their history-making moment on PicturingBlackHistory.org, in an article by Dr. Dexter L. Blackman. Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Morgan State University, Blackman is the author of the forthcoming book "We Are Standing Up For Humanity: Black Power, The Myth of the Black Athlete, and the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights". ⁠ ⁠ An ongoing collaborative effort between originsosu and gettyarchive, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experien...