African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field since the first modern Olympics. While this volume tells the story of such internationally known athletes as Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph, among others; it also introduces or reminds us of such steller performers as John Woodruff, Wyomia Tyus and Nell Jackson. This volume is devoted completely to the African-American's participation in track & field. It reveals the legends and records of club and college participants, as well as coaches -- including the achievements of athletes in the traditional black colleges. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.
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Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, and died in New York City on February 6, 1993. In his twenty-year tennis career Ashe won some of the most coveted singles championship games; Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the World Cup Team Finals. He was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team from 1963 to 1970, and in 1975, 1976, and 1978; as its captain, he led the team to victories in 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the U.S. World Cup Team from 1970 to 1976, and in 1979.
On April 16, 1980, after quadruple bypass surgury, Arthur Ashe retired from professional tennis. He became National Campaign Chairman for the American Heart Association and the only nonmedical member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.
He contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation in 1983. Upon discovering this, Ashe exhibited his perennial quality of action without acrimony and founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, He succumbed to the disease in February 1993.
Ashe was married to professional photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, the author of Viewifnders: Black Women Photographers. They lived in New York City with their daughter, Camera.
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This review is from: A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Boxing (Paperback)
The book is a historical sketch, informative and useful. A good introduction to the subject matter.
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sadly, a shoddy work,
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Arthur Ashe made many fine contributions to America, but this isn't one of them. Not up to the standard set by the other books in the series.
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dash champion, jump champion, jump title, black runners, black athletes, victory stand, weight events, jumping events, long jump, relay team, seconds silver, triple jump, seconds gold Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Jesse Owens (Crowell Biographies) by Mervyn D. Kaufman on 11 pages
- Track and Field by Dewayne J. Johnson on 7 pages
- Hard Road to Glory, A: #3 by ARTHUR R. JR. ASHE on 6 pages
- Track and Field by Jesse Owens on page 25, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wilma Rudolph (On My Own Biographies) by Victoria Sherrow on page 38, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America by Patrick B. Miller on 6 pages
- Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It by Jon Entine on 4 pages
- Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921 by Robert F. Burk on 4 pages
- From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Bertram D. Ashe on 4 pages
- Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide by Ellis Cashmore on 4 pages
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