03982cam a2200589 4500 1169783720 TxAuBib 20240315120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781538163627 1538163624 6e501326-1f22-40de-a399-0f2df5df7c76 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10220951 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Henderson, Edwin Bancroft, 1883-1977. The Grandfather of Black Basketball [Libby] : The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024. physical education. NAACP. Jim Crow. basketball. W. E. B. Dubois. virginia history. racial issues. sports history. african american biography. african american athletes. black athletes. the great migration. civil rights biography. The Talented Tenth. black sports history. DC history. E. B. Henderson. early civil rights history. Father of Black Basketball. Interstate Scholastic Athletic Association. National Basketball Hall of Fame. National Negro Press Association. US sports history. Washington, DC history. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 7619kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Sports & Recreations. African American Nonfiction. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>The first contemporary biography of the man credited with introducing basketball to African Americans on a wide-scale, organized basis.</p> <p>Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson was the son of working-class parents born in slavery. A driven, intelligent, and charismatic young man, Henderson attended Harvard University's Dudley Sargent School of Physical Training. There he met the leaders in the new field of physical education and recognized athletics—and basketball, especially—as a public health initiative and a way that young Blacks could gain college scholarships and debunk the idea of racial inferiority.</p> <p>In The Grandfather of Black Basketball: The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson, Edwin Bancroft Henderson II—Dr. Henderson's grandson—provides unprecedented detail and fascinating insight into this influential figure in Black history. Henderson organized the first athletic league for Blacks, introduced basketball to Black people on a wide-scale, organized basis, and founded associations to train and organize Black officials and referees. He also wrote and co-edited the first Spalding publication that highlighted the exploits of African American participation in sports and authored The Negro in Sports. Outside of athletics, Henderson was instrumental in founding the first rural branch of the NAACP, advocated for school desegregation, and held executive board positions with multiple NAACP branches.</p> <p>Overlooked for decades, Henderson was finally enshrined in the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 as a contributor. The Grandfather of Black Basketball gives long-overdue recognition to a sports pioneer, civil rights activist, author, educator, and pragmatic humanitarian who fought his entire life to improve opportunities for youth through athletics.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-03-15 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e501326-1f22-40de-a399-0f2df5df7c76&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e501326-1f22-40de-a399-0f2df5df7c76&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)