On This Day 41 Years Ago – Arthur Ashe is first black tennis player to win Wimbledon!
On 5th July 1975 American tennis player Arthur Ashe became the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon singles' championship. He has already won two other Grand Slam titles at the US Open (1968) and the Australian Open (1970)!
In the early 1979 Arthur Ashe contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he received during his heart bypass surgery. In 1992 he announced that he had been suffering from AIDS since 1988. He began working to educate others about HIV/AIDS founding the Arthur Read more [...]