The Smart Set Athletic Club was an athletic club based in Brooklyn, NY. The club organized the first African-American basketball team, one of the most successful teams in the Black Fives Era.
History
Founded in 1904, the Smart Set Athletic Club is credited with assembling the first formal fully independent African-American basketball team. The team debuted in 1907. The Smart Set Athletic Club team was also a founding member of the Olympian Athletic League, along with the Alpha Physical Culture Club, the Marathon Athletic Club of Manhattan, and the St. Christopher Club.
Smart Set members came from a background of well-educated, affluent African Americans who resided in what at the time was a predominantly white Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
References
- ^ Cooper, Pamela (1 April 1998). The American Marathon. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815605201.
- ^ "Smart Set Athletic Club | The Black Fives Foundation". 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- Barron, James (2013-02-01). "Long Before the Brooklyn Nets, There Were the Black Fives". City Room. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- Sandomir, Richard (2014-03-19). "Remembering the 'Black Fives' of Pro Basketball (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
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