Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan--before Magic Johnson and Showtime--the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized basketball and spread the game around the world. In Spinning the Globe, author Ben Green tells the story of this extraordinary franchise and iconic American institution. We follow the Globetrotters' rise from backwoods obscurity during the harsh years of the Great Depression to become the best basketball team in the country and, by the early 1950s, the most popular sports franchise in the world. Green brings to life their struggles with racism...
Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan--before Magic Johnson and Showtime--the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized...
In Jim Crow Florida, a young black man s courageous fight to obtain equal rights for blacks ends in a personal tragedy that remains unsolved to this day. This is his story.Before Martin Luther King Jr. began to preach from his pulpit in Montgomery, before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, and before Rosa Parks' famous bus ride, a man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim Crow Florida on behalf of the NAACP and the Progressive Voters League. For seventeen years, in an era of official indifference and outright hostility, the soft-spoken but resolute Moore traveled the back...
In Jim Crow Florida, a young black man s courageous fight to obtain equal rights for blacks ends in a personal tragedy that remains unsolved to this d...
