The document discusses the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968. It notes that Martin Luther King Jr. started the movement to fight against racial discrimination faced by Black people, who were denied rights like voting. It then discusses the 1968 Mexico City Olympics where Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two African American athletes, raised their fists in a black power salute during the medal ceremony to protest racial inequality in the US. Both athletes wore symbols of Black pride and the oppression of Black people to draw international attention to the issue of racial discrimination. However, the IOC punished them for making a political demonstration.