How does a ticket to a 1941 basketball doubleheader link Ohio, the tire industry, burgers, the Star of David, Harlem, FDR, Nike, the UN, and Norman Rockwell?
Episode 3: The Four Freedoms Ticket of 1941
This historic 1941 basketball ticket that celebrates FDR’s birthday and raises funds to prevent Infantile Paralysis represents a major milestone in the sport.
The brothers Ulysses S. “Lyss” Young and William “Pimp” Young, unsung African American basketball pioneers who took their games far beyond the courts.
Akron, Ohio’s all-black American Legion Post No. 272 basketball team was a wartime squad that won the Akron city championship for the 1944-45 season.
ESPN Radio New York 98.7 FM host Bill Daughtry interviews historians Kevin McGruder and Claude Johnson about the recent demolition of Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom.
Efforts to save the Harlem’s historic Renaissance Ballroom, a cultural shrine, have failed. It was demolished by its new owners. Here is how this happened.
A 1947 visit to Cuba by the Harlem Globe Trotters pro barnstorming basketball team gives a glimpse into the past as well as into the future.
Jim Usry’s exclusive 1946 professional basketball player contract with the New York Rens, on display in the New York Historical Society’s upcoming Black Fives Exhibition, opening March 14, 2014.
For the first time, the full article on Major Hart, from “Inside ATF,” the monthly magazine of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Recently, I got this correspondence from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (A.T.F.).