High Fives
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
The Origin of the High Five
The original just giving five was done with each person's hand and arm extending out from waist level. Professor Geneva Smitherman says that regardless of whether Glen Burke did invent the high five, giving five and giving skin were black American practices since at least the 1920s.
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