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By the 1970s, Walker and his partner, Williams, had made this street game into a sport, and on Feb. 14, 1974, the first double Dutch tournament was held with nearly 600 fifth-, sixth-, seventh ...
Double Dutch, as it's practiced today took hold in the 1950s, spreading from urban neighborhoods in the Northeast. While boys shot baskets on public courts in the inner city, girls jumped rope.
“We all grew up cleaning the house with music on Saturday mornings. I get up and my (family) knows don’t bother me from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. because I’m going to jump double Dutch,” Prince said.
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Work hard and get ahead. It’s the American way. But for a group of Black professional women, the workday ends with play. “We are ready,” Jackie Coats says. “Double ...
From push-ups to handstands, the girls are masters of jumping between two rapidly twirling ropes. Black Girls Jump teaches students at Horace Mann Elementary School how to double Dutch. "The goal ...
Double Dutch eventually found its way into public schools, and a competitive league was created in 1973 in New York. A spokeswoman for D.C. schools said the game is part of the physical education ...
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