Museum of Resistance and Resilience

John Carlos

John Carlos unzipped his jacket to represent his solidarity with all the blue-collar workers in America and wore a necklace of beads to represent the lynching of innocent black men and women in the south. Carlos later quoted Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday that “[he] fingered [his] beads and thought about the pictures [he’d] seen of the ‘strange fruit’ swinging from the poplar trees of the South” (Blackmore).

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