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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era (Hardcover)
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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R567
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A groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days
of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players,
teams, and impresarios who made the game From the introduction of
the game of basketball to Black communities on a wide scale in 1904
to the racial integration of the NBA in 1950, dozens of African
American teams were founded and flourished. This period, known as
the Black Fives Era (teams at the time were often called "fives"),
was a time of pioneering players and managers. They battled
discrimination and marginalization and created culturally rich,
socially meaningful events. But despite headline-making rivalries
between big-city clubs, the savvy moves of innovative businessmen,
and the undeniable talent of star players, this period is almost
entirely unknown to basketball fans. Claude Johnson has made it his
mission to change that. An advocate fiercely committed to our
history, for more than two decades Johnson has conducted
interviews, mined archives, collected artifacts, and helped to
preserve this historically important African American experience
that otherwise would have been lost. The Black Fives is the result
of his work, a landmark narrative history that braids together the
stories of these forgotten pioneers and rewrites our understanding
of the story of basketball.
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