From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Fitzpatrick, Jackie Marcellus "Jack"
(born: July 14, 1935)The 6'4" center, Jackie M. Fitzpatrick was a member of the 1953 Kentucky High School Athletic League (KHSAL) championship basketball team from Dunbar High School in Somerset, KY. The team was unbeaten for the season and was runners-up in the 1954 National Negro High School Basketball Tournament, held at Tennessee State University in March of that year. The tournament matched the best African American high school teams from as many as 17 states. After high school, Fitzpatrick played college ball at Knoxville College, a historically Black college in Tennessee. He continued his career after college by playing guard for the Harlem Globetrotters and Saperstein's Chicago Majors, 1961-1963, both were American Basketball League teams. Jack Fitzpatrick was inducted into the Dawahares-Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2005.
For more see Shadows of the past, by L. Stout; P. Kuharsky, "Black teams lived out hoop dreams," The Tennessean (newspaper), 02/24/2005, p. 1C; and the KHSAA 2005 Inductees (pdf).