print email comment close The Original Harlem Globetrotters: Globetrotters History URL: http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/history/globetrotters/ Description: Learn about the history of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, started in Chicago in 1926 as the Savoy Big Five and renamed the Harlem New York Globetrotters in 1930, "lending emphasis that all players were black." Click on the "History" tab near the top of the page to find a detailed timeline and biographies of important players such as Wilt Chamberlain and Meadowlark Lemon. From the Harlem Globetrotters. Publisher: Harlem Globetrotters Extra Keywords African American LII Database Information: Record 25258 created by Maria Brandt on 01/14/2008 Last modification on 01/24/2008 Published: 01/24/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25258