ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On Oct. 16, 1968, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered one of the most powerful and controversial protests in Olympic history during the 1968 Summer Games in ...
The specter of 1968 – with its angry confrontations and police brutality – hung heavy over Chicago in the lead up to the Democratic National Convention, as if the largely uneventful 1996 convention ...
The following story is part of an ongoing NPR series remembering the cultural and political upheaval of the year 1968. Fifty years ago this week, government forces in Mexico fired on thousands of ...
Florencio Lopez Osuna, 50, the main speaker during a 1968 pre-Olympics student demonstration in which Mexican soldiers fatally shot an undetermined number of people, was found dead Friday in a Mexico ...
Background: In 1989, around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in China, pro-democracy demonstrators overthrew a string of Soviet bloc communist dictatorships in a matter of months through ...
Unforgettable fists -- Agents of challenge -- Of civil rights, culture fights, and abstract ideals -- Movement mobilizing -- Power plays : trials, triumphs, and polarization -- Only just begun -- ...
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