One day three of #BlackHistoryMonth we’re taking it back to the 1968 Olympics and the most iconic photo is sports history. In the summer of 1968, American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith orchestrated a silent protest on the Olympic podium. During the medal ceremony for the 200-metre race at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, gold medalist Smith and bronze medalist Carlos famously raised black-gloved fists and bowed their heads to signal black power and black unity in the US.The photographic image of protest still resonates today. The two athletes wore black socks without shoes to show black poverty, while the black scarf around Smith's neck represented black pride. The overtly political statement in an international arena was booed by the crowd, widely denounced back home and the two were subsequently expelled from the Games. Peter Norman was also pictured, On his left breast he wore a small badge that read: "Olympic Project for Human Rights" -- an organization set up a year previously opposed to racism in sport. Norman was the one to suggest that Carlos and Smith wear a glove on alternating hands, when Carlos left his gloves at the Olympic village. He had no means of making a protest on his own but wanted to stand in solidarity with these men. The three of them would never be invited to the Olympics again but what they did still resonates around the world today. #BlackKing #HowToBeAnAlly https://www.instagram.com/p/B8HfKIAgX9W/?igshid=1hgnhmji21yi6