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03628aam a2200517 i 4500 001 E87CD912134F11E6AEBAE1B2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160506010032 008 131114s2014 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013043573 020 $a 1421413949 020 $a 9781421413945 035 $a (OCoLC)864709461 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d CDX $d COO $d PUL $d YUS $d STF $d IAD $d TOH $d IDU $d ZCU $d SOI $d VP@ $d ZLM $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IOK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV994.A7 $b H35 2014 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Hall, Eric Allen. 245 10 $a Arthur Ashe : $b tennis and justice in the Civil Rights era / $c Eric Allen Hall. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a x, 331 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Richmond -- UCLA -- An emerging activist -- Bright lights and civil rights -- Tennis wars -- Defeat and victory in South Africa -- Transitions -- The comeback -- Triumph and tragedy -- Conclusion. 520 $a "Arthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and 1970s. But more important, it follows Ashe's evolution as an activist who had to contend with the shift from civil rights to Black Power. Off the court, and in the arena of international politics, Ashe positioned himself at the center of the black freedom movement, negotiating the poles of black nationalism and assimilation into white society. Fiercely independent and protective of his public image, he navigated the thin line between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and radicals, the sports establishment and the black cause. Eric Allen Hall's work examines Ashe's life as a struggle against adversity but also a negotiation between the comforts--perhaps requirements--of tennis-star status and the felt obligation to protest the discriminatory barriers the white world constructed to keep black people "in their place." Drawing on coverage of Ashe's athletic career and social activism in domestic and international publications, archives including the Ashe Papers, and a variety of published memoirs and interviews, Hall has created an intimate, nuanced portrait of a great athlete who stood at the crossroads of sports and equal justice."--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Ashe, Arthur. 650 0 $a Tennis players $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American tennis players $v Biography. 650 0 $a Civil rights $z United States. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Civil Rights. $x Civil Rights. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Ashe, Arthur. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00000513 650 7 $a African American tennis players. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799417 650 7 $a African Americans $x Civil rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799575 650 7 $a Civil rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862627 650 7 $a Tennis players. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147686 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 856 42 $z Additional Information at Google Books $u http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9781421413945 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826105430.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20160506011154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E87CD912134F11E6AEBAE1B2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search