- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 3.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Leslie Allen was interviewed about her connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Through her mother, Sarah Allen, who was an accomplished tennis player in the American Tennis Association (ATA), Allen knew Ashe from the time she was born.
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