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1. Interview of Jonathon Bell

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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.

3. Interview of Kenneth Bentley

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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. First met Ashe as a high school student, in 1968. Board member of Arthur Ashe’s Safe Passage Foundation and the Arthur Ashe Learning Center.

4. Interview of Nick Bollettieri

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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. A life long friend of Ashe. Partners in establishing a youth program.

5. Interview of Joseph Brown

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
2 hrs.
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:
African American baseball player.

6. Interview of Butch Buchholz

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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. Buchholz knew Arthur Ashe during his youth playing tennis.

7. Interview of Thomas Chewning

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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.

8. Interview of Ian Crookenden

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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.

9. Interview of Carole Dell

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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. Friend with Ashe. Wife of Donald Dell, one of Arthur Ashe’s closest friends and manager. Traveled to South Africa with Ashe in 1973.

10. Interview of Donald Dell

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
5.5 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. He was one of Ashe’s closest friends. He and Ashe met in the sixties during their childhood playing in tennis tournaments. Dell later became the captain of the Davis Cup team in 1968 and recruited Ashe to the team. When Dell left as ...

11. Interview of Kevin Dowdell

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
4 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. Dowdell ran Arthur Ashe’s youth tennis program in the late 80s and 90s.

12. Interview of Stuart Fields

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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. Fields and Ashe both participated in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at UCLA between 1961 and 1965.

13. Interview of Allen Fox

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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.

14. Interview of Marcel Freeman

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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.

15. Interview of Freddie Goss

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
3 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. They met during their first year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) while living in Sproul Hall in 1961. They both participated in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and pledged the historically-Black fraterni...

16. Interview of Robert Green

Topic:
Sports
African American History
Length:
3 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 traveled to South Africa with Arthur Ashe in 1974. They remained life long friends.

17. Interview of Marshall Happer

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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:
Happer was an associate and friend of Arthur Ashe. He has been involved in the world of tennis for many years and has played a significant role in evolving the sport.

18. Interview of Lewis Hartman

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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. Co-founder, former director, and chairman emeritus of the New York Junior Tennis League (NYJTL).

19. Interview of Jaleesa Hazzard

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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. Ashe was a family friend of the Hazzard family throughout his life.

20. Interview of Neale Henderson

Topic:
Sports
African 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.