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This episode of the Make History Now Podcast links an artifact from the Black Fives Era of basketball with Toledo, Akron, the tire industry, hamburgers, Nike, the Cleveland Cavaliers, FDR, Harlem, the Star of David, Congress, the Basketball Hall of Fame, Pearl Harbor, polio, jazz, big bands, posh hotels, the United Nations, and Norman Rockwell!
Find out how!