After World War I, some veterans from Company E of the 372nd Colored Infantry Regiment, 93rd Division, formed a basketball team.
More Vintage All-Black U.S. Military Hoops: Company E, 372nd Colored Infantry Regiment, 1920
April birthdays related to the Black Fives Era of basketball include Don Barksdale, Bill Yancey, John McLendon, Paul Robeson, and Charles Scottron.
Breaking down the century-long connection between basketball and music.
Ralph Bunche was born in Detroit on August 7, 1904. He would become a star basketball player, summa cum laude graduate, and class valedictorian at U.C.L.A. in the 1920s, a Nobel Prize winner in 1950, and the United Nations under-secretary general in 1968. He lectured at Howard University while working towards his doctoral degree at… Read more »
In 1920, Chris Huiswoud became the first basketball referee of African descent to be formally sanctioned (allowed) by the AAU.