| Description |
470 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Title page verso indicates publication date as "2021," publisher's website states publication date as "May 24, 2022." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 429-470). |
| Contents |
An unmarked grave -- Survival -- Seeds -- Pittsburgh Pedigree -- Rites of passage -- Satan's circus -- 1901 -- Physical culture -- St. Christopher -- Great struggle for victory -- A real corker -- As our White friends play it -- Wabash outlaws -- Sport for sport's sake -- A janitor's key -- Virgil -- Maddening -- Supreme courts -- Loendi -- Outlaws -- Democracy lads -- The future of basketball -- Out-and-outers -- The new Negro -- Chicago Crusaders -- "True world champions" -- World Series of basketball -- The missing NBA team -- Vindication. |
| Summary |
"African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues int he 1950s, dozens of teams -- then often called "fives" -- of African American players were founded and flourished. This was a time of visionary players, managers, and impresarios who blazed a trail, battled discrimination and marginalization, and created rich, meaningful events that strengthened their communities in the face of Jim Crow oppression. But this era, known as the Black Fives Era, has been forgotten, overlooked, unacknowledged, and squashed. It is barely known today. For more than two decades, Claude Johnson has made it his mission to change that. A fiercely committed advocate, Johnson has researched, preserved, exhibited, taught, and honored this important African American experience, unearthing what might have remained buried in an unmarked grave. [This book] is the result of his work, a landmark narrative history that braids together the stories of these pioneers and rewrites our understanding of the true history of the game." -- Book jacket flap. |
| Subject |
African American basketball players -- History.
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African American athletes -- History.
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Basketball teams -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Basketball -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Basketball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African American athletes. (OCoLC)fst00799025
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African American basketball players. (OCoLC)fst00799046
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Basketball teams. (OCoLC)fst00828292
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Black 5s |
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Epic story of basketball's forgotten era |
| ISBN |
9781419744365 (hardcover) |
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1419744364 (hardcover) |
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9781683359081 (ebook) |
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