CLUB STORE CO-EDS

Location: Chicago, Illinois
Manager: Dick Hudson
Established: 1930
Type: Barnstorming

With financial backing by the Club Store, a Black-run community cooperative shop located at East 47th and Wabash Avenue in Bronzeville, the Co-Eds featured an all-star lineup that included 6-foot 7-inch center Helen “Streamline” Smith and played their home games at the South Side’s renowned Eighth Regiment Armory. Co-Eds center Helen Smith standing next to a teammate in a photograph used by newspapers to promote their barnstorming tours.

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