that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes that the
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb
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All happened. 15th and pierce street, lynchburg dr. Johnson set up a Junior Development. In 1951 to train the best and brightest kids, mostly africanamericans in the sport of tennis. He would mentor them work on strategy and tactics and have kids come and stay for the summer. About a dozen kids per year and this is the color line in the sport of tennis was broken back in 1950 when Althea Gibson first Junior Development Program Player played the us and thats what started this entire quickly behind. Althea arthur ashe came in 1953 and spent seven summers under dr. Tutelage and. The court behind you is where it all took place. This is where they spent hours and hours and hours of time honing their considerable skills and working on their disposition and talent. Dr. Was my grandfather. He was a Lincoln University graduate, a football player, student athlete, and ended up going to medical school at Meharry Medical School in nashville, tennessee. He did his residency texas prairie view, texa