TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Madison
AU  - Ollivierre,Lonnie
TI  - More than just a game: the Black origins of basketball 
SN  - 9780807552711
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chicago, Illinois
PB  - Albert Whitman & Company
KW  - Basketball
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - African American basketball players
KW  - African American athletes
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Informational works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Ages 4-8; Albert Whitman & Company; Grades 2-3; Albert Whitman & Company
N2  - "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. More than Just a Game 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"--
ER  -