42 pages • 1 hour read
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud AnyabwileA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
This memoir focuses on Tommie Smith’s perspective on the events in 1968. How might it be different if it was from John Carlos’s perspective? What are the privileges that one has when writing about their own life?
How does Tommie highlight how he developed his passion for running over the course of his life?
At the end of the memoir, Tommie said that he would raise his fist in protest again if he had to do his life over. What evidence do you see from earlier in his life that supports this claim?
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