Born January 1884 in Dracut, Massachusetts, Harry Lew would make sports history as the first Black professional basketball player. He grew up in a talented family with ties to history. Several were musicians and his grandparents operated a station of the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts. Pro Basketball Debut Lew himself picked up the violin at an early age. In […]
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