UNCASVILLE, Conn. — At media day during Basketball Hall of Fame induction weekend, I spoke with Jeffrey Fletcher on behalf of Bright Side, executive director of the Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum, located at 952 E. Broadway in Stratford, Connecticut.
Less than a two-hour drive from the Basketball Hall of Fame, the museum is rich in history and features numerous basketball-related exhibits highlighting players and artifacts from Connecticut that hold significant meaning in African
American history.
With media day within driving distance of the museum, a mini exhibit displaying some of the museum’s pieces and connecting them to the history of the sport was on display. Fletcher kindly went through some of them with us.
The goal, as Fletcher put it, was to “have a flavor of civil rights as it related to the pioneers that were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame,” including greats such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Oscar Robertson. Having the exhibit on display during a historic weekend was meant to create that “parallel.”
Take a look at some of the exclusive sounds he gave us while going through the exhibit.
