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Savoy Big Five

CTL-E-1263 · Institution · other · 1920s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black basketball team providing paid pre-dance entertainment at the Savoy Ballroom; the 1928 pay dispute spun off the Harlem Globetrotters Geography: Chicago, Illinois (Savoy Ballroom, South Side)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-066; source research type(s): sports_institution.

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