Tommie+Smith

Thesis:

Mostly known just by his picture, during the Olympic games of 1968, Tommie Smith put up a silent gesture known as the “black power” symbol in front of the world.

Outline: Background Early life Career Track Recognition Fists of Freedom Life After

"TommieSmith.com :: Tommie's Bio." //Welcome to Tommie Smith.com//. Blackwebdiva.com, 2010. Web. 08 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) Son of Richard and Dora Smith
 * 2) African- American
 * 3) Birthday- June 6th, 1944
 * 4) Clarksville, Texas
 * 5) 7th out of 12 children
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Survived life threatening pneumonia as an infant
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Only man to ever hold 11 world records at a time
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">College student- tied or broke 13 world records for track
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">San-Jose University
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Received Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Sciences
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Double minors in Military Science and Physical Education
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Masters Degree in Sociology from Goddard Cambridge in Boston
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Honorary doctorate degree in humane letters form San Jose university
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6’3”
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">185 lbs
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10.1 seconds record in 100 meter
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">19.83 seconds record in 200 meter
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">44.5 seconds record in 400 meter
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">coached by Bud winter at San Jose state
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">played for Cincinnati Bengals

Sinkin, John. "Tommie Smith." //Spartacus Educational//. 2003. Web. 08 Oct. 2011. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT.htm>.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Father was a sharecropper
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">used to pick cotton at local farms to help family out
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">family moved to California
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">attended Lemoore High School
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">won scholarship to San Jose State College in 1963
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">while at San Jose, set individual 200m and 400m world record
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">won 220 yard tittle at National Collegiate Athletic Association and Ameture Athletic Union Champions in 1967
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">as a result of ^ selected to represent in 1968 United States Olympic Team in Mexico City
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1967- became a founding member of Olympic Projects for Human Rights
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Harry Edwards, professor from San Jose, tried to persuade African American athletes to boycott Mexico City Olympics, it failed but some wore black knee length socks in events
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">won gold medal in 200m 1968 Olympics
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">teammate John Carlos took bronze in event
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">during the star spangled banner in medal ceremony, Smith rose right black-gloved fist to represent black power
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">while John Carlos raised left to represent black unity
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Peter Norman, the silver medalist in event supported protest by wearing Olympic badge for humane rights
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The international Olympic committee president, Avery brundage, immediately suspended Smith and Carlos from U.S team and removed from Olympic village
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">when home, he received death threats
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">after graduating from San Jose state, played for Bengals
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in 1972 became track coach at Oberlin college in Ohio,
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">taught sociology at ^

"Tommie Smith." //Associated Students - SJSU//. San Jose Sate University. Web. 08 Oct. 2011. <http://as.sjsu.edu/legacy/tommie.htm>.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Started breaking records as sophomore in college
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Coaching staff on world indoor championship of 1995 team Barcelona
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Featured in documentary on HBO, “Fists of Freedom”
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Faculty member at Saint Monica college
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Head men’s cross country and track and field coach
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Black scarf around neck is black pride
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Black socks with no shoes is black poverty
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1978
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith is selling 200m gold medal
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Selling red puma spikes
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">67 years old
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lives in Georgia
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Trying to accomplish “getting rid of social inequality and transforming it to social equality”
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Afraid he would assassinated on the spot
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith and Carlos bicker about whose idea it was and the race itself
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith and Carlos arms up together formed an arch of black unity and power
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Each wrote and account of the podium that contradict each other
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith describes relationship as “strained and strange”
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Carlos only refers to him as Mr. Smith
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Edward explain Carlos as an “extreme extrovert with a challenging personality” and Smith as “ a much softer, private person”

Davis, David. "Tommie Smith And John Carlos | Once United, Now Divided - Los Angeles Times." //Featured Articles From The Los Angeles Times//. Los Angeles Times, 08 July 2008. Web. 08 Oct. 2011. <http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/08/sports/sp-forty8>
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">African Americans dominated Mexico city winning 10 gold medals and breaking 7 world records
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">As a fourth grade, he was asked to race against the fastest kid in school, his sister
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In high school he was “Most Valuable Athlete” for 3 years in basketball, football, and track
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">His protest is known as the “stand for victory”
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He has been featured in national publications as Sports Illustrated, Sports Newsweek, Cleveland, Score, Ebony, and Track & Field News
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He continues to travel throughout various European and Asian nations, and conducts seminars, clinics and delivers speeches in those locations, as well as on domestic college campuses.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">When asked what he was doing on the podium he said, “Praying.” “I was praying underneath the bleachers, I was praying on the walk up to the victory stand, and the entire time I was up there.”
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Completed autobiography in 2007, “Silent Gesture: Autobiography of Tommie Smith”
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Played wide receiver for Bengals
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Drafted in 1967/ round 9
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">On July 16, 2008, John Carlos and Tommie Smith accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for their salute at the 2008 ESPY Awards held at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Smith and Carlos both attended silver medalist funeral in Melbourne the night of Olympics
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A mural of the photo taken with Smith on the podium at the 1968 Olympics with Carlos and Norman was painted on the brick wall of a residence in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, titled "Three Proud People, Mexico, 1968".
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Played for Bengals for 3 years
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Olympic was the morning of October 16th, 1968
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Carlos wore a necklace of beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Brundage, who was president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1936, had made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics. The Nazi salute, being a national salute at the time, was accepted in a competition of nations, while the athletes' salute was not of a nation and so was considered unacceptable.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After the protest, //Time// magazine showed the five-ring Olympic logo with the words, "Angrier, Nastier, Uglier", instead of "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In 2005, San Jose State University honored former students Smith and Carlos with a 22-foot high statue of their protest