Bob Yancy and Ben Franklin of Boston University (1937)
The first Black selected for All-American Basketball honors was Don Barksdale of UCLA (1947)
The first Black signed by a National Basketball Assn. team was Charles (Chuck) Cooper, who joined the New York Knicks (1950)
The first black basketball player in sec was perry Wallace from vanderbilt.
Lucy Harris was the first black woman All-American basketball player in 1997
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The first professional basketball player was Harry Lew in 1902. Howard University became the first college with a basketball program in 1908. All the players on that team were the first.
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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