The grandfather of Black basketball : the life and times of Dr. E. B. Henderson /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Henderson, Edwin Bancroft, II, 1955- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]
Subjects:	Henderson, Edwin Bancroft, > 1883-1977. Basketball > United States > History. Physical education teachers > United States > Biography. African American civil rights workers > United States > Biography. Professeurs d'éducation physique > États-Unis > Biographies. Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains > États-Unis > Biographies. African American civil rights workers. Basketball. Physical education teachers. United States. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Sunrise: where we begin
The "Black Mecca": Washington, DC: 1861-1904, and beyond
Pittsburgh: learning the value of work
Back home to Washington
M Street High School: an introduction to Washington's Black elites
Miner Teacher's College, normal school no. 2-- Ned and Nell's courtship
Harvard University's Dudley Sargent School of Physical Training
Building the infrastructure: physical education and recreation
Building the framework for organized athletics: The Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association (ISAA), the first African American athletic league
Eastern board of officials (EBO): rules and refs
Basketball games begin in Washington (1907)
Bringing home the title: colored basketball world championship (1908)
E. B. Henderson's early published works: Spalding Official Handbook (1910-1913)
The Hendersons move to Falls Church, Virginia: the suburban life
Protest in Virginia: The NAACP's first rural branch
Protest in the nation's capital
The rise of professional sports in Washington, DC: horse racing in the District of Columbia
Articles, letters, and the Negro in sports: letters and articles
Highland Beach, Maryland
Sunset: retiring to Tuskegee
Epilogue: Resurrecting E. B. Henderson.