Pittsburgh Scholastics

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The Scholastics basketball team featured top young stars Frank “Frankie” Johnson, Chris Dorsey, Ray Anderson, and Gerald Allen.

Johnson was not afraid to recruit straight from high school if the talent was there.

A local white newspaper reported that the Scholastics were “greatly strengthened by the signing of Forest Meshaw of North Braddock High School, where he has been starring for the past two years.”

The Scholastics were one of Pittsburgh’s best black fives until they were absorbed into the more famous Loendi Big Five squad, helping shape that team into a black basketball dynasty after World War I.

Please see this article on The Black Fives Blog for more about the Scholastic Athletic Association and Hunter Johnson.

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“We were helping our race by fortifying the bodies of our people in this, the struggle for existence, where only the fittest survive.”
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