In 1961, Arthur Ashe of Richmond, Virginia won the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's Interscholastic Championship at the University of Virginia. Here is an excerpt from Sports Illustrated's story on this event:
Ashe is the first Negro to win this tournament, and he is the last who will win it at the University of Virginia, where it has been held since 1946. People in Charlottesville have been unhappy at the university's role as tournament host since Negroes began to appear regularly. Despite an agreement with the USLTA extending through 1963, Virginia asked to be excused this year, but reluctantly agreed to hold the tournament on condition that it definitely be moved in 1962. The likelihood is that the new host will be Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass., where the sight of a Negro in white flannels does not upset white citizens as it apparently does in Charlottesville.
Two observations:
1. That last sentence is very nicely done.
2. These days, folks in Virginia have a very different feeling toward Arthur Ashe.
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