This is an image of the 1968 200- meter dash Olympic medalists. Tommie Smith, Peter Norman, and John Carlos stood in unity as the national anthem played to call  attention to the racial tension of the Civil Rights Movement. While this act of resilience led to them benign tripped of their winning, to poverty, homlessness, hatred, and continued discrimination in the US, they pledged to used their winning as a “cry for freedom and for human rights” (Blackmore). All three stood in unity against the prejudice of the Black community and the human rights movement at large.