Skip to content

Digital Harlem Blog

News & Analysis of the web site "Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930"

About
Digital Harlem: the site
Teaching Digital Harlem
Playing the Numbers: the book

Tag: Romeo Dougherty

Basketball in 1920s Harlem

June 3, 2011 Stephen Robertson 11 Comments

Sports loomed large among the entertainments patronized by Harlem’s residents in the 1920s. Basketball occupied the most prominent place. Romeo…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Events, Maps, Photographs, Places Filed under: 15th Regiment Armory, 1920s, 1920s Harlem, 1920s leisure, 1920s sports, 369th Regiment, Alpha Physical Culture Club, basketball, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, churches, Commonwealth Big 5, Commonwealth Casino, Elks, Harlem, Jesse McMahon, Manhattan Casino, New York Renaissance Basketball team, New York Rens, Original Celtics, Public School Athletic League, Renaissance Ballroom, Rockland Palace, Romeo Dougherty, St Christopher Club, St. Philip's Episcopal Church

Categories

Events (16)
Individual (7)
Maps (39)
Photographs (16)
Places (24)
Presentations (21)
Publications (21)
Updates (21)

Tags

135th Street (4) 1920s (40) 1920s Harlem (15) 1920s leisure (6) 1920s sports (3) 1930s (22) African American history (9) arrests (3) black business (10) black families (9) Casper Holstein (3) Catholic (3) children (6) churches (8) Digital Harlem (6) Eighth Avenue (3) Elks (7) employment (7) Fifth Avenue (2) fraternal organizations (3) funerals (2) furnished room (4) gambling (6) Harlem (47) Harlem Hospital (2) Hubert Julian (3) James Weldon Johnson (2) Lenox Avenue (10) lodgers (7) Marcus Garvey (3) numbers (8) parades (6) playgrounds (2) playing the numbers (5) police (5) prostitution (4) restaurants (2) schools (4) Seventh Avenue (9) speakeasies (3) St Mark the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (2) UNIA (7) Universal Negro Improvement Association (4) West Indians (7) white business (5)

Search

[custom-twitter-feeds]

Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)