| Title |
Charging the net : a history of Blacks in tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters / Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose ; with a foreword by James Blake and an afterword by Robert Ryland. |
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| Publication Info. |
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2007. |
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| Description |
viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword by James Blake -- Introduction -- "There is no African-American culture in tennis" -- "I'm not going to be who you want me to be" -- "I'm not giving anything else away" -- "He was exactly who we needed at the time" -- "We were the only show in town" -- "You tell me what the similarity is" -- "It was as if God handed these two young girls to me" -- "Tennis is a family sport" -- "You niggers gotta get off the court" -- "Nobody called me names on the court, but nobody rooted for me either" -- "You could play the French Open and never really see Paris" -- "It's nice not to have to be a fly in milk" -- "We need you out here" -- Afterword -- Appendix A : ATA singles champions -- Appendix B : world-ranked black tennis players. |
| Subject |
Tennis -- History.
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Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
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African American tennis players -- History.
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| Added Author |
Kyle-DeBose, Larryette, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9781566637145 : $26.95 |
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1566637147 : $26.95 |
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| ISBN |
9781566637145 : $26.95 |
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1566637147 : $26.95 |
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