Arhtur ashe biography

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Who Was Arthur Ashe?

Arthur Ashe became the first (and remains the only) African American male tennis player to win the U.S.

Open and Wimbledon singles titles. He was also the first African American man to earn the No. 1 ranking in the world and the first to earn induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6,

Early Life

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.

was born on July 10, , in Richmond, Virginia.

Arthur ashe biography

The older of Arthur Ashe Sr. and Mattie Cunningham's two sons, Arthur Ashe Jr. blended finesse and power to forge a groundbreaking tennis game.

Ashe's childhood was marked by hardship and opportunity. Under his mother's direction, Ashe was reading by the age of four.

But his life was turned upside down two years later, when Mattie passed away.

Ashe's father, fearful of seeing his boy