The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World | Watch on PBS Wisconsin

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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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