When 1968 Olympic 200m champion Tommie Smith returned home from Mexico City, he had no job. He knew why.
“Because of the victory stand,” he said in the new documentary “With Drawn Arms,” which tells his story.
Smith, now 76, is best remembered for raising a black-gloved fist, along with bronze medalist John Carlos, on the medal stand. But what happened in Smith’s life after that is just as much a part of the new film and detailed in Peter King‘s “Football Morning in America” this week.
“The only job I could get was at All-American Pontiac,” in his home of San Jose, Calif.