Basketball player Don Barksdale, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Basketball player Don Barksdale, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
- Don (Donald Angelo) Barksdale was a basketball player. While at UCLA, he became the first African American named All-American in 1947. He was also the first African American to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team, in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He later went on to play basketball in the NBA, with the Baltimore Bullets and Boston Celtics.
- Description
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All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Don Barksdale (left) is receiving a trophy.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Subjects
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People
Sports - African American basketball players
- Names
- Barksdale, Don, 1923-1993
- Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
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YRLSC_gordonphotos_0486
Collection 1867 Box 3 Folder 3 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025pk3w
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted