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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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