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The Los Angeles Red Devils were an independent basketball team that played from 1946 to 1947. ... "Los Angeles Red Devils". Black Fives Foundation. Shav Glick (May 10 ...
The Black Fives Foundation (founded in January 2013) [18] is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to research, preserve, showcase, teach, and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball. Its founder and executive director is Claude Johnson, historian and author of “The Black Fives: The Epic Story of ...
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Dozens of all-black teams emerged during the Black Fives Era, in New York City, Washington, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and other cities. The Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn and the St. Christopher Club of New York City were established as the first fully organized independent all-black basketball teams in 1906.
Founded in 1904, the Smart Set Athletic Club is credited with assembling the first formal fully independent African-American basketball team. [2] The team debuted in 1907. The Smart Set Athletic Club team was also a founding member of the Olympian Athletic League , along with the Alpha Physical Culture Club, the Marathon Athletic Club of ...
From the Black Fives Foundation: “During that period, the Rens routinely beat white national champion basketball teams like the Original Celtics, the Philadelphia SPHAS, the Oshkosh All Stars ...
Interior during an exhibition basketball game against Cal Poly Pomona. USC had planned to build an on-campus indoor arena for more than 100 years. Before the Galen Center, USC basketball had been played at a variety of locations, including the neighboring Shrine Auditorium stage, the old Pan-Pacific Auditorium in the Fairfax District, and from 1959 onward at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
Danny J. Bakewell Sr., photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967.