The Harlem Renaissance was a time of cultural and intellectual growth in the African-American culture during this time in the 1920s to the mid 1930s. It was also known as the great migration because many african americans moved for rural south to the urban north. Then came along a group of basketball players. They were called the Harlem Globetrotters one of the biggest and most well known names in sports at the time. They would play at different ballrooms to bring more people to the ballroom (“Log In”).
The Harlem Globetrotters came into the existence in the 1920s in Chicago Illinois. They played their first exhibition game on January 1927. The team caught the eye of a big sport promoter Abe Saperstein who owned