029 - A Bio Feature on Tennis Great - Arthur Ashe




Success Talks With Rodney Saulsberry show

Summary: Voiceover Actor Rodney Saulsberry narrates this bio feature on tennis great Arthur Ashe. He became the first, and is still the only, African-American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. He is also the first African-American man to be ranked as the No. 1 tennis player in the world. 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, 1993.