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The all-white National Basketball League began to racially integrate in 1942 with 10 black players joining two teams, the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets, and the Chicago Studebakers. The NBA integrated in 1950–51 seasons, just two years after its founding, with three black players each achieving a separate milestone in that process.
The ABL played three more seasons and then, with only five teams playing at the end of 1930–31, folded during the Great Depression. [ 1 ] After more than two years, the league was reorganized in 1933, but as an East Coast league, with teams in Pennsylvania and New York City metro area.
Hank Greenberg a powerful first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was a two-time MVP and a key figure in Major League Baseball during the 1930s and 1940s. Jim Plunkett made history as the first Latino quarterback to win a Super Bowl, and seven years later, Doug Williams became the first black quarterback to achieve this feat.
The practice of enclosing basketball courts in chicken wire, chain-link fencing, or rope — giving basketball the nickname "the cage game" — ended.Intended to increase the tempo of play by keeping the ball from going out of bounds, to protect players and rowdy spectators from each other, and to prevent fans from throwing objects onto the court, the use of these "cages" had led to rough ...
Black Fives is a trademarked term, federally registered in the United States Patent & Trademark Office, that refers to the all-Black basketball teams that existed in the United States between 1904, when the game was first introduced to African Americans on a wide-scale organized basis, and 1950, when the NBA signed its first Black players.
1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. / ... 1920 in basketball (3 C, 1 P) 1921 ...
The plantation was bought in 1912 by Tallahassee attorney George Perkins, who developed Woodland Drives (1920s, 1930s) and donated the land for Capital City Country Club (1924).
Prior to the 1930s, basketball saw a great deal of discrimination as well. [109] Blacks and whites played mostly in different leagues and usually were forbidden from playing in inter-racial games. [109] The popularity of the African American Harlem Globetrotters altered the American public's acceptance of African Americans in basketball. [109]