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Ferdinand Sr. was the child of immigrants from Trinidad; his uncle was the Black activist and medical pioneer Dr. John Alcindor. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Alcindor grew up in the Dyckman Street projects in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan , which he moved to at the age of 3 in 1950. [ 19 ]
A record of the heights of the presidents and presidential candidates of the United States is useful for evaluating what role, if any, height plays in presidential elections in the United States. Some observers have noted that the taller of the two major-party candidates tends to prevail, and argue this is due to the public's preference for ...
Power Memorial Academy (PMA) was an all-boys Catholic high school in New York City that operated from 1931 through 1984. It was a basketball powerhouse, producing several NBA players including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [1] Len Elmore, [2] Mario Elie, [3] Chris Mullin, [4] as well as NBA referee Dick Bavetta and a record 71-game winning streak.
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., American basketball player who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Fernando Alonso (born 1981), Spanish racing driver Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), Dutch Golden Age painter
Ferdinand, European nobility, given name, and characters; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Alcindor in 1947), American basketball player; Ferdinand (surname), a list of people; Ferdinand (dancer) (1791–1837), stage name of French ballet dancer Jean La Brunière de Médicis
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Hall of Fame basketball player, author, [31] born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., raised Catholic in New York City where he attended Catholic schools, converted to Islam in 1971 at age 24. Keith Ellison, first Muslim to serve in the United States Congress; Everlast, Irish-American rapper and guitar player
Grier met basketball player Ferdinand Lewis (Lew) Alcindor in 1969. [24] Early in their relationship, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar proposed to Grier on the condition that she immediately convert to Islam. [25] Grier refused, and he married a different woman that day. [26] [27]
Some African-Americans would later change their name after a religious conversion (Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) from Malcolm Little, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr, and Louis Farrakhan changed his from Louis Eugene Walcott, for example) [11] [12] or involvement with ...