Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Black Socks

They collectively walked to the podium wearing black socks, no shoes, to bring attention to their own upbringing and black poverty in America. They used their national platform to highlight the social issues that were plaguing the United States at the time. Racial tension and discrimination were at a height and Black Americans like Smith and Carlos were fed up with passive attempts of justice and advocated and protested for measurable change in systemic racism.

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