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· Harry “Bucky” Lew was the first African American to integrate a basketball league and play professionally.
· 1905 the first African American Basketball League (Interscholastic Athletic Association of the Middle States.)
· 1927 Harlem Globetrotters are created originally called Savoy Big Five renamed by agent Abe Saperstein.
· Philadelphia Tribunes: one of the first most dominant African American women teams (1931)
· Many African Americans play basketball while they are in the ‘hood’ and only 32 of them make it to the NBA.
· Inner-city Residents play basketball to make a way out of the city and have a better life.
· The African American Approach for playing basketball emphasized speed, agility, leaping and creative ball handling.

Sources

· African Americans in Sports: Basketball
· Basketball Career Still An Inner City Dream.


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“it is an affordable sport that offers young men and women a chance to display their skills, creativity and athleticism.”

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