For this Famous Black Firsts I found
out something. At first I was gonna do the first Black NBA player but
it goes deeper than that. Who was the first Black to ever even be
allowed to play basketball? That would be Harry “Bucky” Haskell
Lew. Born in 1884 he was the first Black to be integrated into a game
in 1902. Looking at his family history it made since that he'd make
some kinda impact.
Born in Massachusetts, his family did things like
serving during the American Revolution, civil rights activists, his
father was a delegate during the Equal Rights Convention in 1891, and
the home that his grandparents lived in was a station on the
Underground Railroad. Bucky played violin before entering the dry
cleaning business with his father. When he was 14 he joined the YMCA young
employed boys basketball team. Yes. That was a thing.
