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The majority of football and basketball teams (in the US) are black; in the past, black or any non-white players were banned from playing, either by social or actual laws. How did basket and football, today seen as stereotypically black sports, become so, well, black?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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