Gone With the Wind (film)
Goodman, Benny
gospel music
Great Black Migration
Great Depression
Hall of Fame: Basketball
Big Band and Jazz Blues
Foundation Rock and Roll
Hall Johnson Choir
Hancock, Herbie
Handy, W. C.
Hardwick, Otto
Harlem: as black Camelot blacks’ early movement into as cultural center as dream city early history of Great Depression in growth and development of images of jazz in and landlords legacy of neighborhoods of in 1964 population of in post World War II years romantization of as unofficial capital of Black America white decline in coming to as white enclave white flight from See also specific topic
“Harlem” (anon.)
Harlem Education Forum
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem magazine
Harlem Renaissance: decline and end of embodiments of spirit of goal/mission of importance of influence on KA-J of KA-J’s early studies of legacy/impact of and ministrelsy stereotypes The New Negro as bible of official start of and sexuality spokespersons for values and ideals of white benefactors of See also specific person or topic
“Harlem stride,”
Harlem Youth Action Project (HARYOU-ACT)
Hayden, Palmer
Haynes, Marques
Haywood, Spencer
Hazzard, Walt
Henderson, Ed
Henderson, Fletcher
Hentoff, Nat
heroes: jazz artists as and KA-J’s writings as major literary theme writers as See also role models
Herrnstein, Richard J.
Heyward, DuBose
hillbilly music
Himes, Chester
hip-hop
history: and call-and-response format Clarke’s views about Garvey’s views about and Hurston’s influence on KA-J importance of and jazz KA-J’s passion for and KA-J’s writings and Rens influence on KA-J rewriting Woodson’s comments about
Hodges, Johnny
Hoffman, Abbie
Holiday, Billie
Holiday Inn (film)
Holman, Nat
Holy Providence School (Cornwall Heights)
homosexuality
Horne, Lena
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
housing
Howard University
Howe, James Wong
Huggins, Nathan I.
Hughes, Langston art views of autobiography of Baldwin compared with black reactions to works of and blues as Chicago Defender columnist contributions and influence of and Cullen death/funeral of and Du Bois Fauset’s support for and Fire!! magazine first visit to Harlem of and Garvey Harlem homes of Harlem of youth of on Heyward and Hurston influence on KA-J of and jazz and Johnson KA- J’s research on late years of and legacy of Harlem and Locke and McKay’s Home to Harlem, Mason’s support for and NAACP and New Negro on ordinary Negroes in Harlem personal and professional background of and politics and race issues as representive of Talented Tenth sexual orientation of and Thurman travels of and Van Vechten’s work and white influx into Harlem and writers as activists writings/ publications of and YMCA See also specific work or magazine
Hunter, Alberta
Hurston, Zora Neale age of attitude about life of audience for awards and honors for black reactions to writings of and civil rights death of education of on fear and feminism and Fire!! magazine and folktales and Great Migration Harlem homes of and Hughes influence on KA-J of influence of and Johnson (Charles S.) late life of literary debut of and Locke Mason’s support for and New Negro Niggerati of personal and professional background of and race issues rediscovery of themes in works of and white audience and working- class blacks writings of
“If We Must Die” (McKay)
Illidge, Eric
Isaacs, John “Boy Wonder
Islam
jazz: as America’s classical music and basketball black reactions to and blues call-and-response in as change agent and Conventional White Wisdom cultural influences on definition of Ellington’s comment about and Fire!! magazine greats of in Harlem and Harlem Renaissance and heroes/ role models and history as history of blacks image of influence on KA-J of instruments for and Jazz Age as KA-J’s passion and Latin music legacy of and minstrel shows New Negro New Orleans origins and evolution of origins of term overview about and race issues and ragtime recordings of and size of bands and stereotypes teamwork in women as singers of and writers See also specific person
Jazz Hounds
Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Jeffries, Jim
Jenkins, Clarence “Fats,”
Jews
Jim Crow: and minstrel shows popularity of stereotype of and racism See also segregation
Johnson, Charles S. See also Opportunity magazine
Johnson, Jack
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Rafer
Johnson, Robert
Jolson, Al
Jones, James Earl
Joplin, Scott
Kareem (KA-J)
Karenga, Ron
King, Martin Luther Jr.
Kitwana, Bakari
Krell, William
Ku Klux Klan
La Rocca, Nick
Lapchick, Joe
Lapchick, Richard
Lateef, Yosef
leadership See also Talented Tenth
Lee, Spike
Lenox Avenue (Harlem)
Leonard, Tyrone
Lewis, David Levering
Liberator magazine
Liberia
literature: for children Du Bois’s promotion of black idealization of Harlem in image of KA-J’s views about about Lenox Avenue See also writer(s); specific person
Little, Earl
Little League
Little Rock, Arkansas, desegregation in
Locke, Alain contributions and influence of criticisms of and Du Bois and Feuset and Fire!! magazine and Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance as homosexual and jazz and Johnson Mason’s support for and name to call black people and nightclubs and other black writers personal and professional background of and race issues Survey Graphic magazine and Talented Tenth tour of South by See also The New Negro
Loendi Big Five
Louis, Joe “Brown Bomber
lynchings
Mabley, Jackie “Moms,”
McCoy, Joe
McKay, Claude awards and honors for black reactions to works by description of Harlem by and dicty and Du Bois and end of Harlem Renaissance Fauset’s support for and Great Migration Harlem homes of as homosexual and Locke and New Negro personal and early professional background of and politics and race issues and Red Summer and Talented Tenth travels of views about Harlem of as West Indian writings of
McMahon, Jesse
McMahon, Vince
Madden, Owen “Owney,”
Malcolm X
Marsalis, Wynton
Marshall, Thurgood
Mason, Charlotte Osgood
Memphis Minnie
Mezzrow, Mezz
Micheaux, Oscar
military, American, blacks in
Mingus, Charles
minstrel shows
Minton’s Playhouse
Monk, Thelonious
Moore, Richard
Morton, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll,”
Mosely, Walter
Moss, Frank
Muhammad Elijah
Mullane, Tony
Murray, Charles
music: call-and-response in as change agent and Conventional White Wisdom and Harlem Renaissance healing powers of Waller’s comment about white’s acceptance of black See also specific musician or type of music
musicians: commuting outside of Harlem by popularity of black rise of black salaries of training of white acceptance of black See also specific person
NAACP (National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People)
names
Nation of Islam
national anthem
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Basketball League (NBL)
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
National Urban League
Native Americans
Neal, Betty
Negro: and name to call black people See also black people; New Negro
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Hughes)
Negro World newspaper
New Negro: and art as propaganda and Back-to-Africa movement characteristics of Crisis as helping define and develop description of and jazz and Lenox Avenue mission/goal of and name to call black people new on 135th Street as replacement for Old Negro Survey Graphic special edition about as term to describe renaissance man Washington as model for See also specific person
The New Negro (Locke)
New Orleans
New York Age newspaper
New York Amsterdam News
New York Catholic High School Championship
newspapers, black See also specific newspaper
Niagara Movement
“nigger” comment, Donahue’s
Niggerati
nightclubs See also specific club
Niles, Blair
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nugent, Richard Bruce
Oliver, Joe “King,”
Olympics (Berlin, 1936)
125th Street (Harlem)
135th Street (Harlem)
Opportunity magazine
Original Celtics See also Celtics
Original Dixieland Jass Band
Oshkosh All-Stars
Ovington, Mary White
Owens, Jesse
Owens, Woody
Oz Harlem
Palca, Alfred
Paradise Room (Reisenweber’s Café)
Parker, Charlie
Patton, Charlie
Paul Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
Payton, Philip A.
Peaker, Charles
piano/pianists See also specific person Pittsburgh Courier newspaper
Plantation Club/Inn
Plath, Sylvia
Poitier, Sidney
Pollard, Frederick Douglass “Fritz,”
Porgy and Bess (opera)
Posey, Cumberland
Powell, Adam Clayton Jr.
Powell, Adam Clayton Sr.
Powell, James
Power Memorial Academy
Prohibition
Pulitzer Prize
race issues: and categorization of race in early 20th century and foreign-born blacks and Hispanics and images of Harlem and Japanese and Jews in 1960s in post–World War I years and racial hierarchy among blacks and racial superiority and science in South and sports and whites on Lenox Avenue and World War I See also black people; civil rights; dicty; Harlem Renaissance: goals/mission of; lynchings; race riots; racial pride; segregation/ desegregation; specific person or topic
race riots
racial pride
ragtime See also specific person
Rainey, Gertrude “Ma,”
Rampersad, Arnold
rap
recordings See also specific artist
Red Summer
Reisenweber’s Café
Renaissance Big Five (Rens): barnstorming by and battle for Harlem and Celtics as first black-owned, full-salaried professional team formation and early years of fundraising games of and Globetrotters as goodwill ambassadors and Hall of Fame and Harlem Renaissance influence on KA-J of in late 1920s legacy of members of season of playing style of popularity of and race issues reputation of salaries of Saperstein as owner of win-loss records of world title and World Tournament
Renaissance Casino and Ballroom
rent parties
Ricks, “Pappy,”
ring shouts
Roach, William
Roberts, Luckey
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,”
Robinson ,Jackie
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Rock, Chris
rock ’n’ roll
Rogers, Joel A.
role models
Russia/Soviet Union
St. Nicholas Historic District. See Striver’s Row
Saitch, Eyre “Bruiser,”
Saperstein, Abe
Sarco Realty Company
Savoy Ballroom (Chicago)
Savoy Ballroom (Harlem)
Savoy Big Five
Schmeling, Max
Schomburg, Arturo A.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
science, and race issues
Search for Missing Persons (radio show)
A Season on the Reservation (KA-J)
segregation/desegregation See also Jim Crow
Sessoms, James
Seventh Avenue (Harlem)
slave songs
slavery
Small’s Paradise
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Kate
Smith, Mamie
Smith, Marvin
Smith, Morgan
Smith, William “Wee Willie,”
Smith, Willie “the Lion,”
social action See also civil rights; specific person
South: barnstorming in blues in the emancipation in and Great Black Migration Hughes’s travels in Locke’s tour of Toomer’s visit to See also farmers, Black; New Orleans
Spartan Braves
spirituals
Spivey, Victoria
stereotypes: and adversity Armstrong’s style as weapon against old racial and basketball and blues and copying white ideals of beauty in film and radio/TV and foreign-born blacks and Harlem Renaissance and images of Harlem and jazz and Joplin and minstrel shows and piano and science and whites as nightclub patrons
The Sting (film)
Strivers’ Row
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Sugar Hill
Supreme Court, U.S.
Survey Graphic magazine
syncopation
“Take the ‘A’ Train” (song)
Talented Tenth See also specific person
Tatum, Art
Taylor, John G.
Tenderloin
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God(TV movie)
Thurman, Wallace black criticisms of contributions and influence of death of descriptions of Harlem by and Du Bois and Fire!! magazine and Harlem Renaissance health of as homosexual and Hughes influence on KA-J of and leadership of blacks and Locke and New Negro personal and professional background of and politics and race issues and rent parties as representive of Talented Tenth reputation of on Striver’s Row and Van Vechten’s work writings/publications
Tizol, Juan
Toomer, Jean (Nathan Eugene)
Tubman, Harriet
Tucker, Earl “Snakehips
Turan, Kenneth
Turpin, Tom
Tuskegee Institute
Tyner, McCoy
UCLA, KA-J at
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Van Vechten Carl
Vaughan, Sarah
Village Vanguard Jazz Club
Virginia Minstrels
Walker, A’Leila
Walker, Alice
Walker, “Fleet
Walker, Madame C. J.
Waller, Thomas “Fats,”
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Chester Jr.
Washington, Dinah
Washington, Grover Jr.
Washington, Kenny
Washingtonians
Waters, Ethel
Watson, Brother
Webb, Chick
West Indians/West Indies
Whirty, Ryan
White, George Henry
“White House” (McKay)
White Mountain Apache basketball team
; White, Walter
Whiteman, Paul
whites: at Apollo Theater and art as propaganda backlash in 1960s by as benefactors of Harlem Renaissance blacks as imitators of and blacks as musicians boll weevils as divine retribution on and challenges facing Harlem writers and Civic Club dinner (1924) and Cullen flight from Harlem of and goals/mission of Harlem Renaissance Harlem as enclave of and Hughes writings and Hurston’s writings idealization of Harlem by images of blacks held by and impact of jazz intimidation by black athletes of and Johnson’s support for other writers Joplin’s views about and KA-J’s name change as landlords in Harlem as Lenox Avenue tourists and Locke’s The New Negro in minstrel shows as nightclub patrons and ragtime superiority of as targets of black writers and Thurman’s works and Washington’s leadership See also Ku Klux Klan; race issues; stereotypes
Wideman, John Edgar
Wilkins, Roy
Wilson, Edith
Winfrey, Oprah
Within Our Gates (film)
women: as blues and jazz singers in minstrel shows
Wooden, John
Woodson, Carter G.
words, importance of
work songs
working-class blacks: adversity of and Baldwin’s writings and Black Bohemia and blues and Garvey and Great Migration Hughes’s writings about Hurston’s writings about and images of Harlem and jazz on Lenox Avenue and overcrowding as part of “Daily” Harlem racial hierarchy among rent parties of wages of
World Professional Basketball Tournament
World War I
Wright, Richard
writer(s): as activists and art as propaganda challenges facing Harlem Civic Club dinner (1924) for Du Bois’s support for black as embodiment of Harlem Renaissance and end of Harlem Renaissance Great Eight as heroes influence on KA-J of Harlem and jazz Johnson’s views about KA-J as as leaders of black movement legacy of major literary themes of Renaissance and 135th Street and race issues restraints on See also art/artists; specific person
YMCA, Harlem
Zulu Cannibal Giants
About the Authors
Recognized by Sports Illustrated and Time magazine as history’s greatest basketball player (he is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer), KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR is also the author of several New York Times best sellers. His previous books include Giant Steps, Kareem, Black Profiles in Courage, A Season on the Reservation, and Brothers in Arms. Since his retirement as a player for the NBA, Kareem has worked as a special assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and acted as a volunteer coach for children on the White Mountain Apache reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona. On the Shoulders of Giants is currently in production as a documentary film.
An associate professor of English at Orange Coast College, RAYMOND OBSTFELD is also the author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including studies of the Italian Renaissance, Napoléon Bonaparte, and Moby-Dick.
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