For the first time, the full article on Major Hart, from “Inside ATF,” the monthly magazine of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
All-black military basketball teams go as far back as racial segregation in the Armed Services. One such team played in the early 1910s: the 10th Cavalry “Buffalo Soldiers” Five, from Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont.
Historically black colleges and universities (“HBCU’s”) were intimately involved in the history of the Black Fives Era of basketball. This week (February 22, 1922) marks the anniversary of the Harlem-based St. Christopher Club’s defeat of visiting Morehouse College, 31-25, snapping the Southern Conference champions’ 42-game winning streak.
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