How an old acquaintance, a family trip, a near chance encounter, and a vintage photograph allowed me to ‘make history now’ inside the White House.
Hudson “Huddy” Oliver was universally considered the best African American basketball player prior to the early 1910s, leading teams to four different Colored Basketball World’s Championships.
The success of the Monticello Athletic Association paved the way for other African American teams in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, by showing that any team from any city could produce a champion with enough desire and determination.
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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