Category: Protest | Arthur Ashe Legacy

What Would Arthur Ashe Do?

On September 9, 1992, tennis great Arthur Ashe was convinced. The conscience of the sport felt that civil disobedience was the only way to call attention to the profound unfairness […]

Arthur Ashe’s Protest for Haitian Refugees Inspires UCLA Senior Thesis

June 11, 2020/in #BlackLivesMatter Haiti Protest /by rmigdol

Looking back, it seems destined that graduating political science and global studies major Maripau Paz’s senior thesis would be inspired by Arthur Ashe. Paz is the first recipient of the […]

The History Behind Angela Davis’ Arrest

August 18, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Civil Rights History Protest /by Joe

Angela Davis in 2006. Image courtesy of Nick Wiebe. On August 18, 1970, Angela Yvonne Davis was named to the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list for her supposed […]

Spotlight on Ida B. Wells

July 15, 2016/in Abolition African American History All American History Authors Civil Rights History NAACP Opportunity Protest Reconstruction US History /by Joe

Ida B. Wells circa 1893. Photo by Mary Garrity Tomorrow marks the birthday of a towering figure in American history. On, July 16, 1862 Ida B. Wells, African-American journalist, suffragist, […]

Tragedy in Mississippi: Looking back at a galvanizing event in the Civil Rights Movement

June 21, 2016/in 1960s African American History All Civil Rights Freedom Rides History Opportunity Protest /by Joe

FBI missing persons poster from 1964 showing Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. Today, June 21st, marks the anniversary of a terrible chapter in the Civil Rights struggle: when […]

Remembering Muhammad Ali

June 7, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Arthur Ashe Protest /by Joe

This past Friday, Muhammad Ali, 74, passed away in Arizona. One of the greatest athletes of all time, he rose from modest circumstances living under Jim Crow to transcend sport […]

Celebrating the Legacy of Lorraine Hansberry

May 19, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Authors Civil Rights Protest /by Joe

Today is the birthday of playwright and writer Lorraine Hansberry, born on May 19, 1932. She is most famous for her celebrated work A Raisin in the Sun, a play […]

April 27, 1994: Change comes to South Africa

April 27, 2016/in Africa All Apartheid Arthur Ashe Civil Rights Education History Mandela Opportunity Protest /by Joe

Frederik de Klerk & Nelson Mandela at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 1992. © World Economic Forum Twenty-two years ago today, South Africa and the world were forever changed […]

From the Salt March to Civil Rights

April 6, 2016/in 1960s African American History All Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Protest /by Joe

One often hears the names Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. used during conversations about civil disobedience and freedom. It is also well known that King cited Gandhi as […]

The Enduring Legacy of Andrew Young

February 29, 2016/in African American History All American History Apartheid Arthur Ashe Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Protest Service /by Joe

Photograph by Warren K. Leffler Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young in 1965 For ArthurAshe.org’s final Black History Month installment, we turn our attention to Andrew Young. […]