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- Title
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION.
- Authors
Lapchick, Richard E.
- Abstract
There has been a long relationship between the United States and South Africa in sport in general and in particular between the U.S. Tennis Association (U.S.T.A.) and South Africa. In August 1978, American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS) received a letter from Hodding Carter on behalf of U.S. President Jimmy Carter stating that the Carter Administration now embraced the goals of ACCESS--the goal of ACCESS being a total sports boycott of South Africa. Prior, to 1970, the U.S.T.A. consistently supported South Africa in the Internationat Lawn Tennis Federation. In December of 1969 an event that caused this Federation great embarrassment took place. Arthur Ashe applied for a visa to play in the South African Tennis Open. Two times she was denied a visa because of the government policy not to allow black sportsmen permits of entry to South Africa. People in sports were outraged not only in the U.S. but around the world. Tremendous pressure was put on the U.S.I.A. to move that South Africa be suspended from the Davis Cub matches scheduled in Washington later that year. This pressure worked; South Africa was suspended.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOUTH Africa; RACISM in sports; UNITED States Tennis Association; DAVIS Cup; ASHE, Arthur, 1943-1993; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 1978, Vol 2, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
0193-7235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019372357800200205