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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. More about this book >
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
Dawud Anyabwile is an Emmy Award-winning and two-time Glyph Comics Award-winning comics artist. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and was nominated for an Eisner Award for his work on the comic series Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline, and has illustrated books by Nic Stone, James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, and Walter Dean Myers, among others.
(Photo credit: Ndosi Anyabwile)
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