Oh What A Year!
October 12, The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City. The games have been boycotted by 32 African nations in protest of South Africa’s participation. On the 18th Tommie Smith and John Carlos, US athletes and medalists in the 200-meter dash will further disrupt the games by performing the black power salute during the “Star-Spangled Banner” at their medal ceremony.
HemisFair ’68 was the official 1968 World’s Fair (or International Exposition) held in San Antonio, Texas, from April 6…
September 7, Women’s Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW, target the Miss America…
Ziploc is an American brand of reusable, re-sealable sliding channel storage bags and containers originally developed and test marketed by The…
During the summer of 1968, Alcindor took the shahada twice and converted to Sunni Islam…