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Article: Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.(Book review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- May 1, 2007
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Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith By Tommie Smith With David Steele Temple University Press February 2007 $27.50, ISBN 1-592-13639-1
The year was 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E Kennedy were assassinated. The war in Vietnam intensified; violence consumed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Richard Nixon was elected to the White House after a contentious presidential campaign, and America's inner-cities burned. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, for that year's Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, to spark some controversy of its own.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two world-class athletes and students at San Jose State ...