Becoming Kareem · Growing Up on and Off the Court by Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Introduction: Every Kid Needs a Coach Part 1: What My Coaches Through Eighth Grade Taught Me (Even When They Didn’t Mean To)

1. How I Discovered I Was Black 2. First Coaches: Mom and Dad Sang the Same Song 3. Coach Dad’s Quiet Lessons 4. Coach Mom’s Practical Lessons 5. Boarding School: Good Boy in a Bad Place 6. Back in Black: A Brand-New Lew 7. I, Basketball

Part 2: High School Confidential: New Heights in Basketball and Political Awareness

8. Fresh Start, Fresh Problems 9. Coach Donahue to the Rescue–Sort Of 10. Meeting Wilt Chamberlain 11. The Disappointment of Winning 12. Summer in the City 13. Things Fall Apart 14. Final Confrontation with Coach Donahue 15. Meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 16. Harlem Explodes! 17. Making Friends with Wilt Chamberlain 18. Girls and Me and Basketball Make Three 19. Senior Year: We Gotta Get Out of This Place 20. Choosing a College 21. California: A Brand-New Me 22. My Reunion with Coach Donahue

Part 3: College Daze: My Years of Living Wondrously

23. Welcome to the Hotel California 24. Life Outside Basketball 25. My First Day with Coach Wooden 26. Meeting Muhammad Ali 27. Oh, Yeah, I Also Played Basketball Freshman Year 28. The Dinner That Changed My Relationship with Coach Wooden 29. Reading Malcolm X: The Book That Changed My Life 30. Sophomore Year: Things Just Got Real 31. The Cleveland Summit Changes the Way the World Sees Me 32. Junior Year: Great Expectations, Great Disappointments 33. Bruce Lee Becomes My Teacher 34. Why I Didn’t Play in the 1968 Olympics 35. Why I Converted to Islam 36. Senior Year: One and Done 37. Good-bye, Yellow Brick Road 38. Becoming Kareem–For Real

And I Lived Happily, Sadly, Magnificently, Boringly, Piously, Crazily Ever After Photos About the Author