Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to ...

From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...

Arthur Ashe's historic 1975 Wimbledon victory over Jimmy Connors remains the only Grand Slam singles title by a Black male ...