... you made her mad, you had a tiger on your hands," noted her nephew Lewis Hill. At the end of basketball season, her team boasted a 22-1 record, and proclaimed themselves black national champions. When the Philadelphia Tribune summed up the season's action, it placed Washington " ... but also as a search for identity. In 1985 Lynnette Woodward became the first women to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, a male basketball professional team. In the mid 1990s, after years of success by women's collegiate and Olympic basketball teams, a group of entrepreneurs formed the American Basketball Le...

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