Tommie Smith and John Carlos

FROM OUR ARCHIVES - Here are Tommie Smith and John Carlos on election night, 2008. You'll remember them from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico as the pair who helped take the civil rights movement global.

In July of 2008, they each accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for the stand they took that night in Mexico. Their actions brought greater attention to the movement, selflessly overshadowing their own personal achievements that day on the track. A statue of them with their raised, black-gloved fists exists on the campus of San Jose State University.