Edwin B. Henderson

Edwin Bancroft Henderson was the man who, as a gym teacher in Washington, D.C. in 1904, became the first to introduce basketball to African Americans on a wide-scale organized basis.

He is an unsung pioneer in the Black Fives Era who had many distinguished accomplishments in a lifelong career dedicated to the advancement of physical fitness and recreation among African American school children, as well as in the advocacy of civil rights causes.

For more information on E.B. Henderson, please see this article and others like it in the Black Fives Blog.