Tennis Great Arthur Ashe Honored With Street Naming Ceremony in Virginia
by Jay Connor from on (#4HQNF)
In 1968, a year fraught with violent civil rights protests and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., tennis legend Arthur Ashe became the first black male athlete to win the U.S. Open. But beyond his groundbreaking accomplishments on the tennis court, Ashe's tireless activism off of it is equally commendable."