Descendants
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If you have an ancestor who contributed in any way toward furthering the progress of African Americans in basketball then you are a descendant of the Black Fives Era!
That’s true whether he or she was a player, a coach, a ref, a journalist, a promoter, a supplier, or even as a ticket holder at an event.
Really, anyone could be a descendant of the Black Fives Era.
But within that large group there is a much smaller, rare, and special collective of individuals whose fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, and grandmothers (and beyond) actually played on (or against) the teams of the Black Fives Era or impacted them positively in some way (that is, coached, officiated, promoted, supplied, etc.).
This special collective consists of men and women like Ellen Jenkins Harris, the daughter of Clarence “Fats” Jenkins, Ed Henderson, the grandson of Edwin B. Henderson, Richard Bell, the son of Clarence “Puggy” Bell, Richard Lapchick, the son of Joe Lapchick, Maxine Baker, the great grand-daughter of Cumberland Posey, Kevin Norman, the grandson of Conrad Norman, and many others.
For all of the above descendants, as well as for anyone interested in connecting with them, we are planning several special initiatives that will 1) connect people to one another, 2) bring recognition, 3) help preserve history, and 4) create more opportunities for further research.
We’ll be announcing more about these initiatives in the upcoming weeks and months.
In addition, among other things, all actual descendants will receive a complimentary premium subscription to BlackFives.com. If you believe you are a genealogical relative of someone from the Black Fives Era, we’d like to hear from you, so please let us know.
To be among the first to know more, please join the Black Fives email list.
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