The black power salute by American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos on a Mexico City medal stand at the 1968 Summer Olympics is one of the most iconic images in the history of sports activism. Even though the majority of Americans alive today weren't born yet, it's a part of our collective consciousness. We remember it, even if we didn't experience it.
But with many people comparing the media coverage and public perception of Colin Kaepernick to the precedent set by Smith and Carlos, it's important to ask how things really went down that night 50 years ago and how it was covered by the American media at the time.
The answers are different from what one might believe.
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