| LC control no. | no 99017036 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cooper, Chuck |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19260929 |
| Death date | 19840205 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | Duquesne University University of Minnesota Boston Celtics (Basketball team) Health and Welfare Association of Allegheny County Pittsburgh National Bank Harlem Globetrotters Community Action Program (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
| Profession or occupation | Basketball players Social workers Civil rights workers |
| Found in | In our own hands, 1998: container (Chuck Cooper) African American National Biography, accessed January 04, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cooper, Chuck; Charles Henry Cooper; basketball player, civil rights activist, social worker; born 29 September 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; BS in Education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (1950); MS in Social Work from the University of Minnesota (1961); first African American drafted into the NBA by the Boston Celtics (1950-1954); traded to the Milwaukee Hawks (1954-1955); played for the Harlem Magicians (1956-1957); social worker, including acting executive director of Community Action of Pittsburgh (CAP) and planning director of the Health and Welfare Association for Allegheny County (1966-1971); first black director of the Department of City Parks and Recreation (1970); urban affairs officer at the Pittsburgh National Bank (1971-1984); honors include inductions into the Duquesne Hall of Fame (1970) and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame (1974); died 05 February 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) |
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