As a tennis player, Arthur Ashe was one of the best of his time. His legacy, on the other hand, will be the positive changes in society as a whole. Though at his best he was for many the very definition of tennis, tennis never defined Arthur Ashe. As a child growing up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, Arthur’s physical stature did little to indicate his future career as a professional athlete. Another tragic event …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…known to the world through a scheduled a press conference on the morning of April 8, 1992. The knowledge that his life and the lives of his family members would forever be altered was foremost on Arthur’s mind. Arthur Ashe passed away on February 6, 1993, having raised awareness of AIDS to a level where paranoia was no longer the overriding emotion and while also an amazing tennis player, and while helping to end apartheid in South Africa.