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Just a friendly reminder to y’all that February is Black History Month. One of BcB’s favorite blogs, P is for Props had a tribute to the 1968 Olympics’ heroics of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the medal podium. If you’re interested in the history behind the statement, come down to sunny San Jose to visit the SJSU campus where a statue of Smith and Carlos (both products of SJSU’s “Speed City” track team, coached by Lloyd (Bud) Winter) was built in 2005. Its been a long time coming…

This entry was posted on February 4, 2010 at 4:55 pm and is filed under Awesomeness with tags 68 olympics, african american, black, black panther, black panthers, civil rights, john carlos, olympics, san jose, san jose state university, sjsu, speed city, tommie smith. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.