That was then, 1968 and this is now, 2016.
There was no Philadelphia Front Page News-Magazine in 1968. However, there was a Van Stone, born 1962. Van Stone was in school grade 1.
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and the Kennedy brothers were all killed by the time the year 1968 was in full passing of time.
The iconic photo of two Black men (Americas' Tommie Smith, John Carlos) standing on a podium, heads bowed, arm raised, black-gloved, clinched-fist and one White man (Australias' Peter Norman) standing side by side, wearing an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of the issues being justly raised in front of the entire world.
With waves of protesting sweeping across the World in 1968 against self serving governments (the same as 2012), poverty, riots, huge amounts of civilian deaths at the hands of Police/Military, legalised racism (in the USA and Australia), Vietnam, and even having a renowned racist, Avery Brundage, the president of the International Olympic Committee at the time.
Avery is known to have helped Hitler win the 1936 Olympic bid (in return Hitler awarded Avery’s construction company a lucrative contract), and he also owned a Country Club in Santa Barbara which had in it’s charter that no Negroes or Jews could be members. It was unsettling times to say the least.
This is the backdrop to the world the athletes found themselves in, as warped as it sounds, this was their normality. But they knew it was wrong, just as the wrong as the purposely built giant billboards blocking out any visitors views of the severe poverty surrounding the Olympic Village in Mexico City.
Black Is Always Lovely Collection.
Philadelphia Front Page News-Magazine and Media Key 307 Magazine
Latin America (Colombia), (Dominican Republic) Southeast Asia, Middle East, Cuba, Africa, Canada, and the USA.
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