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From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a shiny beacon of light that paved just how for African-Americans from coast to coast. 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 work of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and the triumphant music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong gave voice and appearance to the thoughts and thoughts that Jim Crow segregation regulations had long searched for to stifle. In Over the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable baseball star and bestselling creator and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites the listener on an extraordinarily personal voyage back to his birthplace, through one of the biggest political, ethnic, literary, and creative movements in our history, revealing the huge impact the Harlem Renaissance possessed on both American culture and his own life. Beginning with the climb of the Harlem Rens as pioneers of professional baseball, Kareem traces the countless streams of historical affect that converged to produce the man he is today - the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a veritable African-American icon. Travel deep in to the soul of the Renaissance - to the night time clubs, restaurants, baseball games, and fantastic parties which may have made footprints in Harlem's history. Meet the runners, jazz musicians, comedians, stars, politicians, internet marketers, and freelance writers who not only encouraged Kareem's climb to greatness but an entire nation's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born in the midst of a ethnic reawakening, carried on the shoulders of athletes trying to prove there was far more at stake when compared to a ball game, men and women who made music that could break your heart, and freelance writers and intellectuals who gave voice to not merely the ideals of your movement however the raw thoughts. Kareem explains to what it needed to get these revolutionaries to Harlem and how they changed the world. A world that continues to be riding on the shoulders of giants.
