More Than Just a Game
The Black Origins of Basketball
Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
"Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter segregated YMCAs or attend privileged colleges. So Black Americans made their own spaces, playing in dance halls before the dancing started, and eventually forming teams called the Black Fives. [This book] . . . celebrates the history of basketball from a Black perspective, revealing how it changed Black communities and how they made the sport into what it is today"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Basketball -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American basketball players -- Juvenile literature.
African American athletes -- Juvenile literature.
Basketball -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American basketball players -- Juvenile literature.
African American athletes -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780807552711
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C SPORTS Basketball Moo | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references.