jonasgrossmann:

documerica:  john h white… chicago, 1973 @ usnationalarchives

true funny story, the African-American association with basketball comes from the Playground Movement of the early 1900s

That was like “we need open space for urban residents esp. kids to run and play so they don’t picnic and fuck in our city graveyards”

And basketball (originally a Canadian indoor winter sport, thus Hoosiers and the Minnesotan Prince’s shirts v. blouses matches) was the perfect small court sport, smaller than sandlot baseball

AND THEN come the Great Migration all these negroes showed up in the northern American rust belt cities with all these b-ball courts waiting for them