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How did Tommie smith & John Carlos(African,American) highlight the social discrimination of blacks in America?explain?

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They were the winners in Olympic games ,they took advantage of the platform where they were being awarded with the gold medals by raising their fists in support of the blacks who were discriminated in America,they raised their fists as a mark protest.

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