Our Mission
Mission:
The Black Fives Foundation works to research, preserve, showcase, teach, and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball.
Purpose:
The purpose of our efforts include activities that:
- uncover more details from this fascinating aspect of American history
- conserve the narratives and artifacts related to the black basketball experience during this historically important time
- highlight, exhibit, and celebrate early African American basketball artifacts,
- encourage understanding of early African American basketball history as an essential cultural genre,
- advocate for the proper recognition of early African American basketball pioneers,