Arthur R. Ashe Jr. (1943 - 1993): born in Richmond, Virginia. Ashe was one of the first African-Americans to achieve prominence in the sport of tennis; he fought through difficult segregation rules. Ashe received a tennis scholarship to UCLA, became an All-American, and won innumerable championships, including Wimbledon. He was the first African-American male to be elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Ashe established the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS upon learning he had contracted the virus.