Legendary Harlem Globetrotter Charles “Tex” Harrison Earned All-American Honors at NCCU

DID YOU KNOW?  Charles "Tex" Harrison, one of the most esteemed members of the Harlem Globetrotters with more than 50 years dedicated to the organization as a player and coach, was a basketball all-American at North Carolina Central University.

Harrison scored 1,304 points during his career with the Eagles from 1950-54, departing NCCU as the school’s second-leading scorer. 

After graduating from NCCU with a degree in physical education, “Tex” was discovered by the basketball ambassadors in 1954, when he faced the Globetrotters as a member of the College All-American team during the World Series of Basketball. He spent 18 years as a Globetrotter player before becoming a coach.

DURHAM, N.C. -- North Carolina Central University will hold its 61st Annual Honors Convocation on Friday, April 9, in the McDougald – McLendon Gymnasium at 10:15 a.m.  The keynote speaker will be Ernie Suggs, reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Suggs is a 1990 graduate of NCCU. As a student, he served as sports editor and editor-in-chief with the award winning Campus Echo. His extensive background in journalism includes work with Gannett Westchester Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y., and the Durham Herald-Sun, where he covered higher education.

While working at the Herald-Sun, Suggs was awarded an Education Writers Association fellowship and completed the groundbreaking series, “Fighting to Survive,” a 17-story, eight-day series on black colleges that earned him several national and state awards, including Journalist of the Year by the N.C. Black Publishers Association, the N.C. Press Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.