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Timeline commencing after the 1964 Olympics to the days before the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. The events mentioned in the timeline express possible events that may have impacted the communication expressed by Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1968 Olympics. (Timeline left to right)
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February 21, 1965: Malcolm X
assassinated in Harlem by members of the Nation of Islam
August 6, 1965: Voting Rights Acts, the President signed into law the Voting Rights Act. The act prohibited states from using poll taxes or literary tests to limit vote registration for minorities.
August 12, 1965: Race riot in West Side of Chicago
March 15, 1966: Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
December 26, 1966: Mavilana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at CSULB, celebrates the first Kwanzaa.
October 2, 1967: Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
June 5-6, 1968: U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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March 25, 1965: Civil rights activist
led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in
Montgomery, Alabama
August 11, 1965: The Watts Riots begin in Southeast Los Angeles, lasting 6 days
January 12, 1966: First Black in Presidential Cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C. Weaver)
October 1966: Huey P. Newton and Boby Seale in Oakland, California founded The Black Panther Party.
1967: Huey Newton is convicted of manslaughter of policeman, leading rapid expansion of party nationwide.
April 3-4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech and is assassinated the next day by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
October 1968: In Mexico City, rioting breaks out among students who protested the cost of the Olympic Games as well as many other social problems (49 people killed).
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