[Hampton, Virginia]: The Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1926-1950.
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Softcover. Magazines. Thirteen separate annual issues in the original stapled printed wrappers: 1926, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946-47 (double issue), 1948, 1949, and 1950. Most are profusely illustrated with photographs of teams, individual athletes, officials, and coaches. Most staples are a little rusty, occasional light soiling and faint staining, the 1926 issue wrapper is moderately stained, corner chipped and detached from staples; the 1936 issue is bumped along the bottom edge, else very good or better overall. A scarce cache of individual issues of the historically important Bulletin of the C.I.A.A., founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute in Virginia. It is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States, consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities on the east coast, stretching from Pennsylvania to South Carolina.
The Bulletin covers football, track and field, basketball, tennis, baseball, boxing, etc. A small sampling of articles include: “New Deal and College Athletics” by Edwin Henderson (1934); and “A Quarter of a Century in Negro Organized Athletics” by Charles Williams (1936). The 1943 issue is “Dedicated to C.I.A.A. Men in the Armed Forces,” and the 1944 issue includes a poem by African-American poet, J. Farley Ragland: “To the C.I.A.A. Boys in the Armed Services.” Also included in the 1946-47 double issue is “Basketball in the C.I.A.A.” by John B. McClendon, Jr. (known today as “the father of black basketball”).
A detailed list of all 13 issues with notable contributions is available.
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