- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
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- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
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- 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. Leboff and Ashe participated in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at UCLA from 1961 to 1966.
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- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- .5 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. Arthur Ashe met poet, activist Don Mattera during his 1973 visit to South Africa. They remained friends.
- Topic:
- SportsUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents the contribution of UCLA Athletics Coach J.D. Morgan through interviews with individuals who had worked with Morgan both inside and outside the UCLA community.
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA professor of political science, president of the Pac-10 Council of Faculty Athletic Representatives, and member of multiple National Collegiate Athletic Association committees. Interviewed because of connection to J.D. Morgan, UCLA tennis coach and athletic director.
- Topic:
- SportsUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents the contribution of UCLA Athletics Coach J.D. Morgan through interviews with individuals who had worked with Morgan both inside and outside the UCLA community.
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA head track and field coach. Interviewed because of connection to J.D. Morgan, UCLA tennis coach and athletic director.
- Topic:
- SportsAfrican American History
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the American Negro League. Shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.5 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. Childhood friends in Richmond, VA. Met at an integrated tennis match in West Virginia and were not able to play each other in their hometown in Richmond, VA due to segregation.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 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 met between 1962 and 1964 while members of the UCLA Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Later, as an executive at British Airways, Lampl worked with Ashe on several occasions.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 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. Ashe influenced Freeman’s decision to attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1979-1982.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 2.75 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. Fox and Ashe both played on the UCLA men’s tennis team, though a year apart. In 1963, they both debuted at Wimbledon as doubles partners.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.25 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:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Attended UCLA with Ashe, played on the UCLA tennis team, and remained friends with Ashe after their time at UCLA.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 2 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. Attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and received tennis instruction for Lieutenant Ashe while he was stationed at West Point between 1967 to 1969.
- Topic:
- SportsAfrican American History
- Length:
- 1 hr.
- 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. Teammate of Ashe on the UCLA men’s tennis team. Served as Ashe’s attorney during the early years of Ashe's amateur career.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.5 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. Mentored Juan Farrow, a young player from Virginia, who was sent to St. Louis, Missouri to train with Richard Hudlin, Ashe’s former coach at Charles Sumner High School.
- Topic:
- SportsUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents the contribution of UCLA Athletics Coach J.D. Morgan through interviews with individuals who had worked with Morgan both inside and outside the UCLA community.
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA head volleyball coach. Interviewed because of connection to J.D. Morgan, UCLA tennis coach and athletic director.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- .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.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 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. Participated in the Arthur Ashe founded National Junior Tennis League (NJTL); served as a ball boy for Ashe during several professional World Championship Tennis tournaments in Dallas, Texas.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Between 1975 and 1976, ten-year-old Smith became the first non-white person to attain a membership to the Los Angeles Tennis Club after then honorary board member, Arthur Ashe, wrote a letter on his behalf.
- Topic:
- SportsUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents the contribution of UCLA Athletics Coach J.D. Morgan through interviews with individuals who had worked with Morgan both inside and outside the UCLA community.
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA director of athletics. Interviewed because of connection to J.D. Morgan, UCLA tennis coach and athletic director.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 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. Participated with Ashe in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at UCLA from 1963 to 1967.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 0.5 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. Hopkins is a childhood friend of Arthur Ashe’s family.