LEFT: Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200m in the 1968 Summer Olympics, while Silver medallist Peter Norman from Australia (left) wears an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge to show his support for the two U.S. athletes.RIGHT: the two front pallbearers carrying Norman's coffin from the Williamstown Town Hall are Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
The photograph of that moment was declared by LIFE magazine and Le Monde to be one of the 20 most influential images of the 20th century.
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