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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Many of the same conversations about race in America that are happening now were also happening in 1968. On April 4 of that year, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

In the 1968 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos had just won the gold and bronze medals, respectively, for their record-breaking runs in the 200-meter race when they raised their ...

American track and field athletes Tommie Smith (C) and John Carlos (R), first and third place winners in the 200 meter race, protest with the Black Power salute as they stand on the winner’s podium at ...

*A half a century after the US Olympic Committee (USOC) expelled Tommie Smith and John Carlos over their Black Power salute, the organization has announced the two sprinters will FINALLY be inducted ...

Former American Olympic track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who made world headlines after their iconic fist-raising protest on the podium after winning in the 1968 Olympics, will be at UConn ...

On this, the forty-fifth anniversary of the fists of freedom at the 1968 Olympics, we need a new Olympic Project for Human Rights. Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, US athletes Tommie ...

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In this Oct. 16, 1968 file photo, United States athletes Tommie Smith, top center, and John Carlos, top right, extend their gloved fists skyward during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" after ...

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the U.S. Olympic sprinters who raised their fists during the 1968 Olympics, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President ...