About Us
From offering scholarships and internships to current students who exemplify Ashe’s values to conducting an international oral history project that highlights his enormous impact and showcases lessons for today, we are dedicated to honoring the tennis and humanitarian great’s legacy with substantive actions for today’s students and scholars.
Arthur Ashe was a top ranked tennis player in the 1960s and 70s. Raised in the segregated South, he was the first African-American male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament. He was much more than an athlete though. His commitment to social justice, health and humanitarian issues left a mark on the world as indelible as his tennis was on the court.
History
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and several of Ashe’s colleagues and friends founded the Arthur Ashe Learning Center (AALC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in New York, whose mission was the creation, dissemination, preservation, and application of knowledge fro the betterment of society.
2007-
arthurashe.org goes live providing a unique multimedia resource for understanding and promoting the legacy and values embodied in Ashe’s life and work as a conscious leader, humanitarian, educator and athlete.
2015-
AALC Board and UCLA in discussion to establish the Arthur Ashe Scholarship at UCLA.
2017-
AALC transitions to UCLA as the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (later Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA).
2019-
The Arthur Ashe Oral History Project is launched
2020-
Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA supports its first internship.
“We want to be able to look back and say to all concerned that we did what we had to do, when we had to do it, and with all the resources required.”
—Arthur Ashe–
United Nations Address, December 1, 1992