From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon
of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the
country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus
Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and
Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and
William H. Johnson, and the triumphant music of Duke Ellington and
Louis Armstrong gave voice and expression to the thoughts and
emotions that Jim Crow segregation laws had long sought to stifle.
In "On the Shoulders of Giants, " indomitable basketball star
and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites
the reader on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his
birthplace, through one of the greatest political, cultural,
literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the
tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American
culture and his own life. Beginning with the rise of the Harlem
Rens as pioneers of professional basketball, Kareem traces the many
streams of historical influence that converged to create the man he
is today -- the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a veritable
African-American icon.
Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance -- to 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's.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born in the midst of a cultural
reawakening, carried on the shoulders of athletes trying to prove
there was a lot more at stake than a ball game, men and women who
made music that could break your heart, and writers and
intellectuals who gave voice to not just the ideals of a movement
but the raw emotions. Kareem tells what it took to get these
revolutionaries to Harlem and how they changed the world. A world
that is still riding on the shoulders of giants.
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