Did you know that Lena Horne was the daughter of Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who played basketball for the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn?
R.I.P Lena Horne, She Was Connected To Black Fives Era Of Basketball
This story from a Black Fives Era descendant links the distant basketball past with the funeral of New York Renaissance star John Isaacs earlier this year.
The site of the former home of Smart Set Athletic Club founding father Edwin F. Horne, grandfather of Lena Horne, is now a playground in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn.
The very first indoor tennis match involving African Americans took place at a tennis-basketball doubleheader in Harlem in 1914.
December 18 is the anniversary (1908) of the first inter-city game between two African American basketball teams.