Earl Francis Lloyd

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Earl Lloyd is not a well-known name like Jackie Robinson, who broke major league baseball’s color barrier in 1947. One reason is with Lloyd, Clifton, and Cooper all joining the NBA during the same season, none of them had to carry the load alone the way Robinson did.  Cooper made his debut with the Boston Celtics just one day after Lloyd played his first game with Washington. Also, with Robinson already playing baseball, the debut of African-Americans in the NBA was not as astonishing.

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Lloyd has opened a door that thousands of others have walked through such as NBA greats Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Julius Erving. Lloyd also changed the game by the flamboyant or showy moves African Americans had which appealed to more audiences. The segregation of the era meant that the flamboyant or showy moves were developed independently in the African-American community, separate from the more conservative style that was played by White Americans in early professional leagues, such as the BAA. A distinctive “black” style of play was developed. The moves were inspired by the play of the legendary all-black New York Renaissance and Harlem Globetrotters. Without Lloyd, it would be unusual to see ten African Americans on the court at the same time.  Because of Lloyd the racial barrier was broken and we are provided with the entertainment of different styles of many African American players in the NBA.

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Links:

http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=First_African-American_NBA_Players

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earl-lloyd-becomes-first-black-player-in-the-nba

http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=African-American_Influence_in_the_NBA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Lloyd

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1658&category=SportsMakers&occupation=Former%20NBA%20Player&name=Earl%20Francis%20Lloyd

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/666191-jackie-robinson-nba-style-earl-lloyd-on-breaking-basketballs-color-line

http://www.answers.com/topic/earl-lloyd

http://sports.jrank.org/pages/2880/Lloyd-Earl.html

http://www.theduquesneduke.com/sports/to-know-him-was-to-love-him-1.2090513#.UwQOnGJdWSo

http://sweetwaterbasketballmovie.blogspot.com/2010/07/nathaniel-sweetwater-clifton.html

http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/spring09/lloyd.html

 

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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