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The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World
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The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World

Delves into the circumstances that compelled runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos to make an iconic gesture of defiance at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City during a critically important and volatile time for the civil rights movement.

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