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John Carlos, whose iconic black power salute at the 1968 Olympics generated outrage among many Americans, was greeted as a hero at Liberty Square in New York Monday night . . . [W]hile most Americans know that Carlos and fellow sprinter Tommie Smith wore black gloves and raised their fists in a salute at the medal ceremony, the pair also did not wear shoes in protest of poverty and wore beads in protest of lynching.
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