Tommie Smith
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Tommie Smith

Tommie Smith
Born 1940s.
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
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Tommie Smith is a retired track and field athlete and football player. He won the gold medal for the 200 meter sprint in the 1968 Summer Olympics and is known for his Black Power salute with John Carlos on the medal podium. He later played professional football for the Cincinnati Bengals.[1]

Thomas "Tommie" Smith was born in 1944 in Clarksville, Texas. He is seventh of twelve children of Dora and Richard James Smith.

Sources

  1. ↑ Wikipedia: Tommie Smith
  • 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
    National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Red River, Texas; Roll: 5188; Page: 13; Enumeration District: 194-32
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #190371591
    Tommy Smith (5), single son, in household of James Smith (38) in Red River, Texas, USA. Born in Texas.

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