From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

On July 31, 1916, the first official Boy Scouts Council-promoted Negro Troop was formed: Troop 75 in Louisville, KY. It was not the first troop of Negro Boy Scouts; five years earlier, in 1911, the first Negro Boy Scouts Troop was established in Elizabeth City, NC. By the late 1920s, there were over 200 all-Black troops, with more than 500 Scouts in Louisville.

For more see Historical Boys' Uniforms, United States Boy Scout Uniforms: 1920s, by Christopher Wagner; "Black History, and the American Boy Scout Movement, a story," African American Registry; and The History of the Boy Scouts of America, by W. D. Murray.