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The famous picture of the event was taken by photographer [[John Dominis]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://life.time.com/culture/black-power-salute-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos-at-the-1968-olympics/#1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014191417/http://life.time.com/culture/black-power-salute-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos-at-the-1968-olympics/#1 | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 14, 2013 | publisher=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] | title=Hope and Defiance: The Black Power Salute That Rocked the 1968 Olympics | access-date=13 November 2013 | date=14 October 2013}}</ref>
Both US athletes intended to bring black gloves to the event, but Carlos forgot his, leaving them in the Olympic Village. It was Peter Norman who suggested Carlos wear Smith's left-handed glove. For this reason, Carlos raised his left hand as opposed to his right, differing from the traditional Black Power salute.<ref name="BBC2">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7674157.stm |publisher=BBC | title=The other man on the podium | access-date=9 November 2008 | date=17 October 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081020092915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7674157.stm| archive-date=20 October 2008| url-status=live | first=Caroline | last=Frost}}</ref> When "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" played, Smith and Carlos delivered the salute with heads bowed, a gesture which became front-page news around the world. As they left the podium they were booed by the crowd.<ref name="Freedom Weekend">{{cite web | url=http://www.freedomweekend.info/downloads/john_carlos.pdf | publisher=Freedom Weekend | title=John Carlos | access-date=9 November 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218111444/http://www.freedomweekend.info/downloads/john_carlos.pdf | archive-date=December 18, 2008 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Smith later said, "If I win I am an American, not a black American. But if I did something bad then they would say 'a Negro'. We are black and we are proud of being black ... Black America will understand what we did tonight."
Tommie Smith stated in later years that "We were concerned about the lack of black assistant coaches. About how [[Muhammad Ali]] got stripped of his title. About the lack of access to good housing and our kids not being able to attend the top colleges."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/erika-smith/2015/03/18/smith-tried-make-moment-movement/24983931/|title=Smith: 'They tried to make it a moment, but it was a movement'}}</ref>
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