![]() ![]() Still, it's a good introduction for young readers to an inspiring story about taking a stand for one's beliefs. My only reservation about the book is how quickly it skims through the decades following his Olympic victory, passing quickly through the backlash he faced and his own marriages and children. He reflects on the events and forces of the 1950s and 1960s that caused him thrust his arm into the air: his upbringing, racism, the Civil Rights Movement, other athletes who had taken stands, and the assassinations and growing turbulence in the United States. ![]() Smith retraces his life from a sharecropping farm in Texas through a move to California as part of the Second Great Migration to his rapidly rising star as a track athlete. Before Colin Kaepernick polarized the United States by taking a knee, Tommie Smith shocked the world by raising his fist in a Black Power salute with fellow American John Carlos on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. ![]()
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