Black+Civil+Rights



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__**Special Topic**__


 * Black Sports Stars**


 * Firsts**
 * Baseball -** The first black player to play Major League Baseball was Jackie Robinson, for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers in 1947. Robinson was also the first black athlete to break the colour barrier in the main professional sports of the USA (excluding boxing).


 * Basketball**
 * The first black player to be drafted by an NBA team was Chuck Cooper by the Boston Celtics.
 * Nat Clifton was the first black player to sign an NBA contract and make the team with the New York Knicks.
 * Earl Lloyd was the first black player to play in an NBA game, for the Washington Capitols on October 31 1950.
 * American Football -** Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first black NFL players in 1920.
 * Ice Hockey -** The first black player in the NHL was Willie O'Ree for the Boston Bruins in 1958. O'Ree is different in the fact he is Canadian and a Canadian national, so is not in fact an African- American


 * Other Important Events**
 * Joe Louis
 * Olympic Games, Mexico City 1966 and the 'Salute' by John Carlos, Tommie Smith, and Peter Norman.
 * The 1966 Texas-Western Miners, a college basketball team who won the national championship, and in protest to segregation and racism only black players were involved in the final against an all white Kentucky team.
 * Muhummad Ali