Book
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Black power salute : how a photograph captured a political protest
Publication Information
North Mankato, Minnesota : Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint, [2017]
Physical Description
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Audience
Grade 4 to 6.
Series
Summary
Discusses the protest against racism by African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, and the iconic photograph that captured the historic event.
Contents
- Surprise on the podium
- Demanding rights
- Portrait of a protest
- From traitors to heroes.
Subjects
- African American athletes > Juvenile literature.
- Olympics > Participation, African American > Juvenile literature.
- Protest movements > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Sports > Social aspects > United States > Juvenile literature.
- Social justice > United States > Juvenile literature.
- Racism > Juvenile literature.
- African American athletes.
- Olympics.
- Olympic Project for Human Rights > Juvenile literature.
- Olympic Project for Human Rights.
- Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico) > Juvenile literature.
- Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico)
- Smith, Tommie, 1944-
- Carlos, John, 1945-