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Arthur Ashe

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Arthur Ashe
Unknown -- Photos in the Los Angeles Daily News collection at the UCLA library are from the newspaper of that name that existed from 1923 to 1954. This is more likely to be from the Los Angeles Times. / CC BY 4.0 · resizedfile
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Tennis, United States. Ashe, winner of three Grand Slam singles titles, backed the founding of the players' union, the Association of Tennis Professionals, in 1972 and became its elected president in 1974. As a board member he voted for the 1973 Wimbledon boycott over the suspension of Niki Pilić, in which 81 players withdrew and which showed the governing bodies that professionals could no longer be dictated to, and he campaigned against apartheid in South African sport.
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