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Radio 6 Music,13 mins

Tommie Smith Black Power Salute Interview

Radcliffe and Maconie

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Tommie Smith’s full interview with Stuart Maconie about how it felt to stand on the podium with John Carlos at the Mexican Olympics in 1968 and make the Black Power salute and its significance for him and human rights, then and now.

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