Bibliograph

Victory. Stand!, raising my fist for justice, Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Type

Label

Victory. Stand!, raising my fist for justice, Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 13-18, Norton Young Readers

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victory. Stand!

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1294286116

Responsibility statement

Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Sub title

raising my fist for justice

Summary

In 1968, gold medalist Tommie Smith raised his fist on the Olympic podium to protest racial injustice in the United States. This is his story. Those fists in the air were dedicated to everyone at home, back in the projects in Chicago, Oakland, and Detroit, to everyone in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, to all of the brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers in Birmingham, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, New Orleans, to everyone struggling, working their fingers to the bone on farms across America, to everyone holding out hope that things will get better . . . that was for you, from John and me. We had to be seen because we were not being heard

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Contributor

Creator