Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice with Derrick Barnes
Black History for White People
Black History for White People
3.6 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships.
In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas through to his stellar athletic career, culminating in his historic victory and Olympic podium protest. Victory. Stand! paints a stirring portrait of an iconic moment in Olympic history that still resonates today.
- Purchase Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice
- Check out the book's website
- Visit Derrick's website at derrickdbarnes.com
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know what most white people in this country feel, |
| 0:05.0 | but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions. |
| 0:10.0 | Now, this is the evidence. |
| 0:13.0 | You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, |
| 0:20.0 | on some idealism which you assure me |
| 0:23.0 | exists in America, which I have never seen. |
| 0:26.5 | So today we have a very special guest, Derek Barnes, who is the National Book Award |
| 0:31.3 | finalist for his 2022 graphic novel, Victory Stand, Raising My F fist for justice, which also won the 2023 |
| 0:39.3 | YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award and a Kreda Scott King Award author |
| 0:46.6 | honor. |
| 0:47.5 | So this book is just beautiful. |
| 0:50.3 | I highly recommend that our audience buy it and check it out. |
| 0:54.6 | Like, we are excited to hear more about it and about the story behind the book, but also |
| 0:59.4 | you cannot just through audio get everything that we want you to get out of this. |
| 1:05.2 | So we want you to go buy the book, see it, read it, and have the way that the story |
| 1:10.6 | and illustrations work together to powerfully |
| 1:13.9 | convey these stories is just awesome. |
| 1:15.9 | So, Derek, we are very excited to have you and hear more about you. |
| 1:19.8 | First, want to start out the way we typically do by setting aside for a minute the things |
| 1:25.1 | you've done and just hearing who you are. |
| 1:26.9 | So could you introduce |
| 1:28.0 | yourself? Who is Derek Barnes? Sure. Man, first of all, thank you brothers for having me on. I appreciate |
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