{"id":698,"date":"2013-10-17T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=698"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:42:09","slug":"this-day-in-history-tommie-smith-makes-a-black-power-salute-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2013\/10\/17\/this-day-in-history-tommie-smith-makes-a-black-power-salute-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; Tommie Smith makes a &#8216;Black Power Salute&#8217; at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 October 1968, Tommie Smith caused controversy by making a &#8216;Black Power Salute&#8217; at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>After winning 200m gold in Mexico City, Smith and his fellow American John Carlos &#8211; who took bronze &#8211; made the gesture during their medal ceremony in order to support the civil rights cause.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more and listen to Smith explain what led him to make one of the most political statements the Olympics has ever seen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fsport%2F0%2Fathletics%2F24543522&amp;h=cAQHX-Q6b&amp;enc=AZPnNmD5_2ajWXJNQzpI_9FsW9nmFI4Y-Z6P0IlvvTB9Z8xbjSgRfiwWsaIdzJArSJtMlReU_e6Ftu7DOeGmj_bKzwGnWN0e2-CnUrYuXJAdnI6Goc-hTj4RYl9gkd29HgJRplJHK53cZ-Qqxm2zGksR&amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/athletics\/24543522<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 October 1968, Tommie Smith caused controversy by making a &#8216;Black Power Salute&#8217; at the Olympics. After winning 200m gold in Mexico City, Smith and his fellow American John Carlos &#8211; who took bronze &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}