Others followed, including the New York Girls, the first all black female team. ... The Romas, one of the greatest female ball clubs of all time, played against male and female teams, never lost a game for six years after World War 2 (1939-1945). ... Lucille Townsend became a star on and off the court. ... Ora Washington was another rising star, an African American woman out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... After World War 2, a hopeful black public focused much of its attention on a new generation of racial pioneers, barrier breakers such as Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson, and Wilma Rudolph...

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