Voicethread+Storyboard+Mexico+City+1968+4

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 * [[image:72259855_c029ec2a1f.jpg width="162" height="184"]] || Tommie Smith, gold medalist and John Carlos, bronze medalist sboth ran in the 200 meter dash for the U.S. Secretly planned a non-violent protest following the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. As the American flag rose the two closed their eyes, bowed their heads, and began their protest. Smith later told reporters that he rose his right hand demonstrating black power. While raised his left hand showing black unity in America. the black scarf stood for black pride and the black socks and no shoes stood for black poverty in a racist United States. Something that I found very interesting was that the silver medalist of the event, Peter Norman of Austrailia, who is white, also protested by wearing an Olympic Protection of Human Rights(OPHR) badge. All of America was affected by this bold move. Some Thank them, some hate them. The two athletes were suspended from the games and banned from Mexico. ||
 * [[image:2424976767_c8043be207_m.jpg width="124" height="158"]] || At 7,349 ft above sea level the thin air in the Olympic city, Mexico City, was a major concern for many of the competing countries and athletes. While the thin air supposedly helped Bob Beamon’s spectacular long jump of 8.90m, it caused any events over 1,500 meters hard to compete in. It was considered unfair because many of the African runners had trained in high altitudes. Infact Kip Keino of Kenya did particularly well, earning gold and silver medals. When this issues were brought up to  Avery Brundage, president of the IOC, he said, "The Olympic Games belong to all the world, not just the part at sea level."
 * [[image:2424976767_c8043be207_m.jpg width="124" height="158"]] || At 7,349 ft above sea level the thin air in the Olympic city, Mexico City, was a major concern for many of the competing countries and athletes. While the thin air supposedly helped Bob Beamon’s spectacular long jump of 8.90m, it caused any events over 1,500 meters hard to compete in. It was considered unfair because many of the African runners had trained in high altitudes. Infact Kip Keino of Kenya did particularly well, earning gold and silver medals. When this issues were brought up to  Avery Brundage, president of the IOC, he said, "The Olympic Games belong to all the world, not just the part at sea level."
 * [[image:490607281_8ea6b115e5_m.jpg width="151" height="156"]] || The Tlatelolco happened ten days before the Games were to open, students protesting the Mexican government's use of funds for the Olympics rather than for social programs were surrounded in the Plaza of Three Cultures by the army and fired upon. More than 200 protesters were killed and over a thousand injured.  A mere five years later, Mexican citizens have kicked the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI) out of office and voiced their strong support for a new era of accountability. ||