Throughout their medal event in the Olympic Arena in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, 2 African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and also John Carlos, each elevated a black-gloved clenched fist during the playing of the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. While on the podium, Smith as well as Carlos, who had won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 200-meter running event of the 1968 Summer Olympics, resorted to encounter the United States flag and afterwards maintained their hands raised up until the anthem had actually completed. On top of that, Smith, Carlos, and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all used human-rights badges on their jackets. In his autobiography, Silent Gesture, published virtually 30 years later, Smith modified his declaration that the gesture was not a Black Power salute per se, but rather a civil rights salute. The demonstration is considered as among one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern-day Olympics. Y...