Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.: The Hand That Smashed Color Barrier In World Tennis, Fought Apartheid and Won Grand Slams

On July 10, 1943 Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born to parents Arthur Sr. and Mattie C. Ashe in Richmond, Virginia. His interest in and learning of tennis from an early age happened partly because his father got a job at Brook Field in 1947. They lived in a house located on blacks-only 18-acre park […]

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