Article: Reliving Great Memories: Track Heroes Tommie Smith and John Carlos Saluted As 'Olympians of the Century'

Article: Tommie Smith, John Carlos Return to ...
AScribe Law News Service;  October 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos will come to San Jose State University Thursday ... executive director of the Associated Students, "Tommie Smith and John Carlos proved that student advocacy is of the utmost ...

Article: Tommie Smith, John Carlos sculpture ...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  November 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... San Jose State University to honor 1968 Olympic gold and bronze medal winners and SJSU student activists, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, culminated on Oct. 17, with the unveiling of a 20-foot sculpture in the university's Sculpture Garden ...

From left to right: 1968 Olympic medalists Peter Norman, of Austrailian, ...
KRT Photos;  October 17, 2005 ;     407 words ... ... medalists Peter Norman, of Austrailian, Lee Evans, John Carlos and Tommie Smith look on during the statue unveiling ceremony at ... by of San Jose State sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the medal ceremony. (smd) 2005 (Diversity ...

Article: A Statue For Tommie Smith And John ...
Sun Reporter, The;  October 20, 2005 ;     397 words ... ... with the United States national anthem being played at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, American Olympians, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, had a statue of their actions unvieled on the San Jose State University campus last Monday, October 17 ...

Article: Norman recalls his day with Tommie Smith and ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... and winning silver in the Olympic 200 at Mexico City. But Norman recalled that famous day 32 years ago with Tommie Smith and John Carlos like it was yesterday. "Once we were downstairs, the guys told me what was going to happen,'' Norman ...

Article: Statue honors Olympic sprinters' civil rights ...
Jet;  November 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... day after they staged a historic civil rights protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were able to see their gesture immortalized in a statue of bronze, steel and tile, that was recently unveiled ...

Article: San Jose students want statue honoring Olympic salute. ...
Black Issues in Higher Education;  June 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...SAN JOSE, CALIF. Thirty-five years after sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists on the Olympic podium in a Black power salute, students at their alma mater want to honor ...