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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era
Engelsk Hardback
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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era
Engelsk Hardback

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The Black Fives is 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.

“For a game that has meant so much to the world, Claude Johnson somehow presents a definitive account for a part of basketball’s history that for so long was kept away from us. Claude is a superhero storyteller, and this book is a bona fide superpower.” —Justin Tinsley, author of It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

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.

Historian 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, establishing The Black Fives Foundation. This essential book 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.





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
480
ISBN-13:
9781419744365
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1419744364
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Udg. Dato:
23 jun 2022
Længde:
44mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Abrams
Oplagsdato:
23 jun 2022
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