Arthur ashe : a life
Arsenault, Raymond2018
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A comprehensive, authoritative, biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the colour barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of 11, Arthur Ashe was one of the state's most talented black tennis players. Jim Crow restrictions barred Ashe from competing with whites. Still, in 1960 he won the National Junior Indoor singles title, which led to a tennis scholarship at UCLA. He became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, and two years later he won the NCAA singles championship.
Main title:
Arthur ashe : a life / Raymond Arsenault.
Author:
Arsenault, Raymond, author
Work:
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Collation:
784 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781439189047 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.342092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2699002