Summer 1968: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led 32 basketball clinics for @NYHCA youth while boycotting the Olympics to protest US racism. @LaGuardiaWagner has 2 great photos, which I used to explore @kaj33's activism & tenant organizing for @nycscholars blog: gothamcenter.org/blog/black-pri… 
Threading some citations and thanks here. To start, @kaj33 himself is an incredibly prolific and inspiring writer. For one example, check out this piece on his 1968 Olympic boycott, excerpted from "Coach Wooden and Me": olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/05/22/kar…
There's a lot of fantastic historical writing about the intersection of sports and civil rights out there. I learn a lot from following @loumoore12 on here and I cite his book, "We Will Win the Day" in this post. abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorpor…
Another example: this piece from historian John Matthew "Johnny" Smith for the @TheUndefeated (and also check out his article from the @ussporthistory journal in 2009): theundefeated.com/features/lew-a…
And, of course, a big thank you to @LaGuardiaWagner archives for digitizing these photos, and for all the work they do preserving the @NYCHA collection. I couldn't have written this article on resident organizing without them: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Particular thanks to @molly_rosner at @LaGuardiaWagner (and also an @nycscholars editor) who pointed me to this incredible photo from the Queensbridge Houses, something she found as part of the ongoing #oralhistory of Queensbridge residents she's heading up with LGWA.
And thanks to @ussporthistory for properly connecting me to @JournSportHist and @SportsHistProf, whose work on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I cited several times in the post.
Finally, one more time, here's the original thread that spawned this post.
