Basketball
The Harlem Rens They played from 1922 to 1948
Basketball
Basketball
The Harlem Rens were the first African-American basketball team and they were actually founded in 1922. They played from 1922 until 1948.
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Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Globetrotters
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Wings (1927)
Althea Gibson (1927-) was not only the first black woman but the first ever black person to win at Wimbledon. She took the title in 1951 and the same year she was the first black woman to be invited to enter the American Lawn Tennis Association Championships. In 1950 she also became the first African American of either sex to compete in the US Open tennis competition.
The Harlem (Chicago) Globetrotters.