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Author Hall, Eric Allen.

Title Arthur Ashe : tennis and justice in the Civil Rights era / Eric Allen Hall.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 331 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Richmond -- UCLA -- An emerging activist -- Bright lights and civil rights -- Tennis wars -- Defeat and victory in South Africa -- Transitions -- The comeback -- Triumph and tragedy.
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Summary "Arthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and 1970s. But more important, it follows Ashe's evolution as an activist who had to contend with the shift from civil rights to Black Power. Off the court, and in the arena of international politics, Ashe positioned himself at the center of the black freedom movement, negotiating the poles of black nationalism and assimilation into white society. Fiercely independent and protective of his public image, he navigated the thin line between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and radicals, the sports establishment and the black cause. Eric Allen Hall's work examines Ashe's life as a struggle against adversity but also a negotiation between the comforts--perhaps requirements--of tennis-star status and the felt obligation to protest the discriminatory barriers the white world constructed to keep black people "in their place." Drawing on coverage of Ashe's athletic career and social activism in domestic and international publications, archives including the Ashe Papers, and a variety of published memoirs and interviews, Hall has created an intimate, nuanced portrait of a great athlete who stood at the crossroads of sports and equal justice."--Publisher's description.
Local Note EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center
Subject Ashe, Arthur.
Ashe, Arthur. (OCoLC)fst00000513
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
African American tennis players -- Biography.
Civil rights -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
African American tennis players. (OCoLC)fst00799417
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
Tennis players. (OCoLC)fst01147686
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Hall, Eric Allen. Arthur Ashe. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014] 9781421413945 (DLC) 2013043573 (OCoLC)864709461
ISBN 9781421413952 (electronic book)
1421413957 (electronic book)
9781421413945
1421413949
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