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02223cam a2200361 a 4500 001 081D13982B1011DEAA7E7608A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20150109011437 008 070122s2007 ilua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2007002747 020 $a 1566637147 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781566637145 (cloth : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d C#P $d YDXCP $d JED $d VP@ $d IOK $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV992 $b .H37 2007 082 00 $a 5 $a 5 $2 22 100 1 $a Harris, Cecil, $d 1960- 245 1 $a Charging the net : $b a history of Blacks in tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters / $c Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose ; with a foreword by James Blake and an afterword by Robert Ryland. 260 $a Chicago : $b Ivan R. Dee, $c c2007. 300 $a viii, 267 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. 505 0 $a Foreword by James Blake -- Introduction -- "There is no African-American culture in tennis" -- "I'm not going to be who you want me to be" -- "I'm not giving anything else away" -- "He was exactly who we needed at the time" -- "We were the only show in town" -- "You tell me what the similarity is" -- "It was as if God handed these two young girls to me" -- "Tennis is a family sport" -- "You niggers gotta get off the court" -- "Nobody called me names on the court, but nobody rooted for me either" -- "You could play the French Open and never really see Paris" -- "It's nice not to have to be a fly in milk" -- "We need you out here" -- Afterword -- Appendix A : ATA singles champions -- Appendix B : world-ranked black tennis players. 650 0 $a Tennis $x History. 650 0 $a Tennis players $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American tennis players $x History. 700 1 $a Kyle-DeBose, Larryette, $d 1945- 856 42 $z Additional Information at Google Books $u http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9781566637145 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824020854.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090708133753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=081D13982B1011DEAA7E7608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search