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African-Americans have been playing College Basketball since the early 1900s. Determining, who was the very first is impossible but some of the those early names included Paul Robeson, Wilbur Wood, and Fenwick Watkins.
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First black basketball player at Kentucky?
Tom Payne
Who was the first black basketball player at Indiana university?
Bill Garret
First black female all-American basketball player?
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Who was the first black basketball player at university of Cincinnati?
Oscar Robertson
First black basketball player at the university of North Carolina?
Charlie Scott.
Who was the first black player elected into basketball hall of fame?
The answer id noone
Who was the first black basketball player at the univrsitity of North Carolina?
charlie scott
Who was the first black basketball player at Oklahoma State?
L.C. Gordon, 1957
Where was chuck cooper the first black drafted basketball player born?
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
Who was the first black basketball player pictured on a Wheaties box?
Babe Zaharias in 1935 was the first black woman athlete on a Wheaties box
Who was the first black man drafted in the nba in 1951?
Earl LloydApril 28Earl Lloyd*On this date we celebrate the birth of Earl Lloyd in 1928. He was an African American basketball player, the first Black man to play in a National Basketball Association (NBA) game.
First black player basketball hall of fame?
Robert L. "Bob" Douglas also know as The Father of Black Professional Basketball was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on February 5, 1972, becoming the first African-American to be enshrined in Springfield.
