<---- U.S. Olympic track team members
Tommie Smith and John Carlos had just finished winning gold and bronze medals, respectively at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Their two raised fists were a powerful protest to racial injustice in the United States. [UPI Photo] |
<------ The Shore family, pioneers in Custer County, Nebraska, in the late 1880's, pose in front of their sod house, proudly displaying their new baby and the family dog. [Photo from Black Women of the Old West, William Loren Katz.] |