The Black-Versus-White Basketball Game That Integrated the Sport
Over 70 years ago, the Harlem Globetrotters took on the Minneapolis Lakers, and changed hoops forever
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5 min readFeb 27, 2018
When the Harlem Globetrotters and the Minneapolis Lakers played an exhibition game in Chicago in 1948, critics dismissed the contest as a publicity stunt. There was no way the all-Black…
