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FT SeriesFrieze New York 2019
Why Frieze Sculpture represents a new chapter for the New York fair
...The Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth has installed aluminium cut-out sculptures of American civil rights activists Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Ruby Bridges and Tommie Smith, the gold-medallist who...
April 26, 2019
Life & Arts4 min
Why US athletes risk money and fame to protest
...Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball's colour barrier in 1947, and Martin Luther King Jr. said it helped spark the civil rights movement....
October 6, 2017
FT Live
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Sport
Patriot games: the rebirth of the activist athlete
...Back then Tommie Smith and John Carlos were inspired by the Black Power movement, reflecting the anger of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and the urgency of Martin Luther King Jr....
October 6, 2017
Life & Arts
Simon Kuper: Why do we still watch the Olympics?
...After the 200-metre sprint at the 1968 Olympics, the American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the “Black Power” salute from the medals’ podium....
July 29, 2016
FT Magazine
John Carlos, USA
...“I was born to make that statement,” he says of the salute he and Tommie Smith gave after receiving their medals for the 200m sprint....
June 8, 2012

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