- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 3.75 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:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. He and Ashe were members of the US Davis Cup together, and Riessen was a player in 1981 when Ashe was Davis Cup captain. Riessen and Ashe also co-founded Players Enterprise Incorpoated in October 1969, the Association of Tennis Profe...
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