Black Fives: The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923 by Claude Johnson

Black Fives: The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923

Claude Johnson

122 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history race sports challenging reflective medium-paced
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Formed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America's first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City's overcrowded teneme...

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