9781422288009 Players & the Game Around the World

Make Connections Today, the Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy. Their antics are meant to make people laugh, but they also take a lot of skill.

During World War II, the U.S. government “relocated” many Japanese Americans to internment camps; because the United States was also at war with Japan, many Americans did not trust Americans with Japanese ancestry. Basketball, the all-American sport, was a part of camp life. This game between girls’ teams was played in a relocation center in Wyoming in 1944.

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PLAYERS & THE GAME AROUND THE WORLD