WHITE & COLORED PARK A HISTORICAL LANDMARK

White & Colored Park, the park at 1st & New York Ave NW (Behind Dunbar H.S.) where MBL sponsors one of the City's Summer league games, was acknowledged as a historical landmark. It turns out that long time ago DC like the rest of the country was segregated. But somebody had the foresight to know that things were not going to stay that way forever.Sometime in the early 1900's the park was renamed White & Colored Park, and it was the first park in the District to allow white and black kids to play together. Over the years the park has grown very popular throughout the metro area. White & Colored Park has produced some of the city's greatest basketball players. Local and international roundball luninaries like John "Bay-Bay" Duran formerly of the Georgetown Hoyas, "Moochie" Norris of the New Orleans Hornets, Michael Smith formerly of the Sacramento Kings and Washington Bullets, Dave Butler of the 1991 NCAA Champions University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lawrence Moten former Vancouver Grizzles and Washington Bullets, Sam Young of Pittsburg University, Trey Kelly of South Carolina University, Rob Diggs of George Washington University, and Baby Shaq of the AND1 MIX TAPE TOUR all learned the game in the park.