Neighborhood basketball — DuSable "Wonder Five" and South Side playground ball

CTL-E-1312 · Practice · other · 1935–1990

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Basketball as everyday Black Chicago practice: school teams as community institutions, playground and park-district ball, and the pipeline from neighborhood courts to city prominence. DuSable High's 1954 "Wonder Five" — first all-Black team led by a Black coach to reach an integrated state final — as community touchstone.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-049; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

IMDb, "The DuSable Panthers" (based on Ira Berkow book); Wikipedia, "DuSable High School"
SLAM Online, "Schooled"

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