Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice is a graphic memoir telling the story of Tommie Smith’s life. In it, Smith recounts his earliest years in Texas through his decision to start running and his experiences into the 21st century. He explores in particular how key moments of the Civil Rights Movement affected his life and the lives of those around him. Victory. Stand! is cowritten by Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile. Smith himself is the author of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, which he cowrote with David Steele (2007). Smith was an Olympic gold medalist and well-known athletic coach. Derrick Barnes is also the author of Like Lava in My Veins (2023), Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (2017), and We Could Be Brothers (2010), among other titles. Anyabwile is a comic book artist who has worked on The Crossover (2014), Monster (2015), Booked (2016), Becoming Muhammad Ali (2019), and Clean Getaway (2020), in addition to the Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline series (1989-1996). Additionally, Victory. Stand! was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a National Book Award finalist and won the YALSA award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction.