Peter George Norman was an Australian track star best known for winning the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. His time of 20.06 seconds still stands as the Australian 200 metre record. He is a five-time Australian champion of 200m. The gold and bronze medalists were Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, respectively. On the medal podium, during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", … Wikipedia
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Impassioned: Australia's Peter Norman looks straight ahead as Tommie Smith, centre, and John Carlos make their stand. www.smh.com.au/olympics/articles/2004/06/18/1089484304254...
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Thirty eight years ago, on October 16, 1968, the medals ceremony at the Mexico Olympics was converted into a symbolic demonstration of the struggle against oppression. The unexpected silver medalist, 26-year-old Australian Peter Norman, wore a button of t www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/norm-o23.shtml
Norman was a white Australian, living in a country where change comes embarrassingly slowly, where Aborigines were not allowed to vote in federal elections until 1962 and were not counted in the national census until 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/...
Australian sprinter and civil rights supporter Peter Norman, the third figure in one of the most famous sporting protests of alltime, died on Tuesday from a heart attack. www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Peter-Norman-dies-after-hear...
CHAMPION Australian sprinter Peter Norman was praised today as a man who never flinched from his courageous support of the black power protest at the 1968 Olympics. www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20550419-2722...
