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The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
[2] [10] Roberts had also been arrested in the 1920s for wearing his Army uniform after the post-war demobilization, [11] something which had also happened to Johnson. [12] As a result of this record, some authors and historians believe it likely that the arrests and criminal charges were motivated by racism rather than actual misconduct.
Washington was part of the first Harlem Globetrotters team to travel around the world. [4] Washington was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters from 1946 to 1960. [4] [5] After his basketball career, he joined Pepsi-Cola, working in advertising, then sales, and rising to the position of community relations manager. [6]
Our weekly spin through The Journal News archives revisits the Harlem Globetrotters' annual visit to the Westchester County Center in 1979.
Thomas Robert Brookins (September 2, 1906 – June 1988) was an American sportsman and entertainer. He founded the basketball team that became the Harlem Globetrotters, and toured the world as one half of the vaudeville singing and comedy duo Brookins and Van.
-New World Review [3] “This book is the definitive history of the 369th Regiment in World War I, an outstanding black infantry regiment comprised of 3,000 men led by a white command element. It is the most complete, scholarly, and fully documented account of this famous (and underpublicized) unit, unlikely to be superseded."
PEORIA — The Harlem Globetrotters will make Peoria a destination on their 2025 World Tour.. The famous basketball team will put on its show on Jan. 5 in Carver Arena, with their trademark song ...
The all-Black Army regiment nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters battled both the German forces and racism during World War I.