The Philadelphia Tribune Girls, all-black female basketball team. © Black Fives, Inc. All rights reserved.

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BlackFives > The Spartan Girls all-black womens basketball team, New York City, 1910. The Spartans were the sister team of the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn.

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BlackFives > Photograph of an unidentified women's basketball team, circa 1912. The setting for this photograph is very likely on the campus of a historically black college in the South. More here about other unidentified African American female teams.

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BlackFives > "Ballard" Women's basketball team, circa 1910.

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BlackFives > Golden Arrow all-female, all-black basketball team.

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BlackFives > Unknown girls basketball team, circa 1925.

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BlackFives > "Jump Ball": unknown girls basketball teams compete, 1929. This is very unusual photograph for several reasons. Photographs of basketball played in a cage are very rare. Also, it was rare for women to be photographed playing basketball in action, rather than posing in action. It is rare to see an action shot from above, where the photographer must have been atop the cage structure or possibly inside an adjoining tenement building. And finally, most people didn't have cameras in the first place, especially among African Americans.

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BlackFives > "Game Between H.M.C. and A.H.S. 3/22/29." Unknown all-black girls basketball teams compete. This is an amazing photograph because it shows an enormous number of spectators, some of which are so eager to watch the game that are sitting on top of the fencing and in the trees, three stories up! What was it that made this game so special? That looks like a parade marshal in the lower right corner. And folks look dressed in their best. Boys are wearing newsboy caps. Ladies are wearing dresses and coats. Men have on trousers, jackets, and hats. In addition, the tenement skyline tells a story of its own.

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BlackFives > "Waiting For The Ball": unknown all-black girls basketball teams compete, 1929. The women who are visible seem to be on defense waiting for the team with the ball to come up court. This view shows a crowd of spectators who are two- and three-deep, including quite a few boys and young men sitting on the fence wearing newsboy caps and knickers, the style of the 1920s.

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BlackFives > "Time Out": unknown all-black girls basketball teams pause during competition, 1929. The brick wall and back stairs as well as the many young women inside the court indicate that this was possibly a school yard for an all-girls school. Difficult to tell which team is which, but it is clear that these ladies have plenty of male fans on the outside looking in.

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The Philadelphia Tribune Girls, all-black female basketball team.

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