On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem RenaissanceSimon and Schuster, 2007 M02 5 - 288 páginas New York Times bestselling author and living legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares how the power of the Harlem Renaissance led him to become the man he is today—basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and Black American icon. In On the Shoulders of Giants, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites us on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace of Harlem through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in history. He reveals the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance—the night clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties that have made footprints in Harlem’s history. Meet the athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem’s rise to greatness but an entire nation. |
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... wrote, “If I have seen further [than other men], it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Now, because I stand seven feet two inches, most people probably think I can see just fine without standing on anyone's shoulders. They'd ...
... wrote, “If I have seen further [than other men], it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Now, because I stand seven feet two inches, most people probably think I can see just fine without standing on anyone's shoulders. They'd ...
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... wrote about, sang about, painted and sculpted. The one where black people actually lived, worked, cooked, went to church, gossiped about neighbors, and buried loved ones. This was the Harlem where they raised families, raised rent, and ...
... wrote about, sang about, painted and sculpted. The one where black people actually lived, worked, cooked, went to church, gossiped about neighbors, and buried loved ones. This was the Harlem where they raised families, raised rent, and ...
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... wrote to the Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), edited by W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Washington riot gave me a thrill that comes once in a life time . . . at last our men ...
... wrote to the Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), edited by W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Washington riot gave me a thrill that comes once in a life time . . . at last our men ...
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... wrote in his essay “The New Negro” that the causes of the migration to Harlem were more deliberately political than the traditional causes attributed to the mass movement: The tide of Negro migration, northward and city-ward, is not to ...
... wrote in his essay “The New Negro” that the causes of the migration to Harlem were more deliberately political than the traditional causes attributed to the mass movement: The tide of Negro migration, northward and city-ward, is not to ...
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... wrote, “This was not simply going out for a walk; it is like going out for an adventure.” Activist Malcolm X, a onetime resident of Harlem, echoed that sentiment: “Up and down along and between Lenox and Seventh and Eighth Avenues ...
... wrote, “This was not simply going out for a walk; it is like going out for an adventure.” Activist Malcolm X, a onetime resident of Harlem, echoed that sentiment: “Up and down along and between Lenox and Seventh and Eighth Avenues ...
Contenido
How Harlem Influenced My Life | 47 |
Jazz Lights Up the Heavens of Harlem | 193 |
Photo Credits | 256 |
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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
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