Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University

Mexico City, Mexico (Associated Press, Will Grimsley).
The U.S. Olympic committee's executive board issued
a broad apology Thursday for the Black power display
by sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at Wednesday's
victory ceremony in Olympic Stadium.
Mexico City, Mexico (United Press International).
The U.S. Olympic committee met again today and decided
that Tommie Smith and John Carlos would be
suspended from the team because of their Black power
display at Wednesday's victory ceremony. The two
Black sprinters would be asked to leave the Village
immediately.
Trenton, New Jersey (Trenton Times-Advertiser).
W. Oliver Leggett, Assistant to Mayor Armenti of this
city, [Trenton, New Jersey] has registered a strong protest
against action taken by the U.S. Olympic Committee
in the dismissal of Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
two Black members of the 1968 Olympic Team.
"It was not Tommie Smith and John Carlos who
introduced social protest or politics to the Olympic
stadium," states a press release from Leggett. "It was
demonstrated first by the prolonged and sustained applause
the Czechoslovakian Olympic Team received
when they entered the Olympic procession, even before
the start of the games. This applause was obviously
based on the sentiments of the recent confrontation of
the Czechoslovakian and Soviet governments." Leggett
states politics was further demonstrated by the U.S. in
its 60-year-old tradition of failing to lower the American
flag in respect to the reviewing stand of the host nation.
"Tommie Smith and John Carlos were dismissed on
the obvious premise that injustice and inequities can be
confined to orderly and comfortable areas of expression,"
Leggett goes on. "I suggest ... that protest must
be registered in every area of a people's participation."
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