Consolidated White River Academy Girls Basketball Team

Consolidated White River Academy girls’ basketball team; circa 1939. On the far right is the team’s coach, Althia Whitfield Mackey. Kneeling, front row, right is Theressa Gant-Neal, and top row, fourth from the right, is Mosalee Malone.

nine African American teen girls posing in basketball uniforms alongside an African American woman in a dress

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

Media

Time Period

Early Twentieth Century (1901 - 1940)

Category

Basketball / Individual and Team Sports / Recreation and Sports

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

African American

Gender

Female

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