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	Podcast:		HISTORY This Week
	Episode:		When Basketball Meets Jim Crow
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:20:48
	Publish Date:		2020-03-23 07:00:00
	Description:		March 28, 1939. Two teams are facing off for the final game of World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, the first professional tournament to feature both white and black basketball teams. This is several years before the start of the NBA, and Jim Crow segregation was still the law of the land in many parts of the country. The New York Rens, an all-black team, have made it to this championship, but their road to the top was anything but easy. Who were the Rens? And how did they fight segregation and change the history of basketball? Special thanks to Susan Rayl, African American Sports Historian & Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Cortland. To our listeners, thank you for subscribing to History This Week. We want to hear your feedback: https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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