In recent days and weeks, images of Nicky Winmar bravely confronting racist fans at Victoria Park 20 years ago have rightly been celebrated. But there was another picture published the same day in the same newspaper - this one - that was just as big an agent of change. We have blocked it out of our collective memory, though, because it spoke to the darkest parts of the human condition.

The celebrated picture, showing the St Kilda great lifting his club guernsey and pointing to his skin, captured a seminal moment in the fight against racism, not only in football but in the general community.

Moments before and after St Kilda footballer Nicky Winmar raises his jumper in response to racial taunts from Collingwood fans at Victoria Park in 1993. Credit:Wayne Ludbey

That photograph first appeared on page one of The Sunday Age on April 18, 1993, under a four-column headline that read - ''Winmar: I'm black and I'm proud of it.'' As the then editor of the paper, I had placed Wayne Ludbey's picture on page one after realising it was a moment in time that would be forever remembered, cited and, perhaps, celebrated, although it was too soon to be sure of that.

The picture evoked many things and many qualities - courage, conviction, athleticsm - but essentially it represented good triumphing over evil.