mr. samuel brown. thank you for being with us this afternoon. >> thank you for having us. >> i said most of us think about just the happy facing and the cheering and applause when you say harlem globetrotters. >> right. >> but it wasn't always like that behind the scenes. >> yes, ma'am. >> what, first of all, when were you a globetrotter? >> started in 1954. >> and you were, you played for the globetrotters for? >> five years. >> and as you traveled around the country and around the world, some places, you were treated not like the globetrotters we expect, but another black man. tell us what some of the things the team encounters. >> we couldn't even eat in a restaurant in the south, we had to stay at people's houses, and it was kinds of difficult because coming from new york, i knew it was prejudice, but not this type of prejudice where they have signs up saying no colored. and that bothered me because you know, coming from new york, i went to junior high school with all black kids, but i wasn't feeli