Conflicts Arthur Faced

Arthur Ashe:Breaking the Color Barrier in Tennis, David K. Wright (1-70)

Arthur faced many problems in his life.Breaking the color barrier in was not as tough to fight with as his problem with AIDS. After most of his career, he decided to call a press conference to tell all of America that he has the disease. Though his wife and little girl didn't have it, it was very hard to face the facts. This conflict caused him to end his career to fight the disease. That was the top of his problems, but there were little things that made his life hard. One of them was that he was black. At that time black people didn't really get any respect in America. Just like Jackie Robinson, there was people that did not want to see Ashe succeed. Him being a black tennis player just didn't seem right for the white Americans. He constntly battled people that didn't want him to play on and off the tennis court. I look foward to seeing how he wards off the ones that want to bring him down and continue to play tennis. Also, I would want to see how the people react when he begins to defeat some of the other tennis players on their courts.