Edwin Bancroft Henderson

Edwin Bancroft Henderson ( 24. November 1883 in Washington, DC - 3. February 1977 in Tuskegee , Alabama ) was an American athletes, coaches, teachers, sports historian , active in school administration and in the rights movement Civil . He is considered the (grand) father of African American basketball .

Life

As the grandson of an Indian, a Portuguese, a wealthy Southerner and his African American slave, Henderson had a very ambivalent relationship to race and vehemently opposed racial segregation . He grew up in Pittsburgh and later in Washington, DC, learned very early reading, read regularly in the near Library of Congress , was valedictorian of M Street High School in Washington, DC, where he in baseball , American football and athletics was successful . He received his BA from Howard University , an MA from Columbia University and a PhD in physical therapy ( athletic training ) from Central Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri .

From 1904 onwards he began the racially segregated school system Washington, DC, in the schools of the African American. He also attended sports classes during the summer holidays at Harvard University , where he got to know the basketball game, invented in 1891. He spread the game among African Americans not only in Washington, but also in New York City and other East Coast cities, earning him the nickname of the father of African American basketball . For 25 years, Henderson served as the top school administrator for African American sports in Washington DC. He researched the history and culture of black sports in the United States and was a prolific writer of letters to the editor for local newspapers in Washington and neighboring Virginia . It is estimated that over three thousand were published by him during his lifetime (how many were non-published in the racist South, which includes Virginia is unknown). He founded the first black sports league ( Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association (ISAA) to put African American sports on its own regional and national basis; he coached the 12th Streeters basketball team , with which he launched the world championship of the Black won in 1909-10 and then with Howard University in 1910-11; he founded the Eastern Board of Officials , the first organization for black referees and their training, and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and local chapters campaigned for the end of the racial barriers in sport and was inducted into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame in 1974 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 .

literature

• Edwin B. Henderson: The Colored College Athlete. , in: Crisis (July 1911), pp. 115-118.
• Edwin B. Henderson: The Negro In Sports . Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, Inc., 1939 (2nd expanded edition 1949).
• JHM Henderson: Molder of Men. Portrait of a 'Grand old Man'. Edwin Bancroft Henderson. New York: Vantage 1985.
• Ron Thomas: They cleared the lane. The NBA's Black Pioneers. Lincoln / London 2001: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4528-0 .
• David K. Wiggins: Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History. , in: Sport and the "Color-Line," edited by Patrick B. Miller and David K. Wiggins. New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 271-288.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• EB Henderson in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame At: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018 (in English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.blackfives.org/happy-birthday-edwin-eb-henderson-grandfather-of-black-basketball/
2. ↑ Othello Harris: The rise of the black athlete in the USA. James Riordan , Arnd Krüger (Ed.): The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge 1999, pp. 150-176. ISBN 0-419-21160-8 .