Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics
Artist
John Dominis
(American, born 1921)
DateOctober 16, 1968, printed 2009
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 42.9 × 28.1 cm (16 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
sheet: 50.5 × 40.3 cm (19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
sheet: 50.5 × 40.3 cm (19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2014.1235
Label TextIn Mexico City the American runner Tommie Smith won the 200-meter track event in world-record time. Peter Norman of Australia took the silver medal, and John Carlos of the United States placed third. On the award podium the two Americans raised black-gloved fists as the national anthem played. They were shoeless to symbolize black poverty, while Smith wore a black scarf and Carlos a necklace of beads to stand for African Americans who had been lynched. All three wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges, and were later ejected from the games.On View
Not on view
