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March 2, 2021

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: The Women of Black Tennis Hall of Fame


INAUGURAL CLASS OF 2008

  • Althea Gibson, Pioneer/Player

  • Lucy Diggs Slowe, Pioneer/Player

CLASS OF 2009 

  • Ora Washington, Pioneer/Player

  • Bonnie Logan, Player

  • Zina Lynn Garrison, Player

CLASS OF 2010

  • Ann Koger, Player

  • Leslie Allen, Player

CLASS OF 2011

  • Isadore Channels (Izzy), Pioneer/Player

  • Flora Lomax Bray, Pioneer/Player

  • Lulu Ballard, Pioneer/Player

  • Lori McNeil, Player

CLASS 2012

  • Katrina Adams, Player

  • Margaret "Pete" Peters and   

       Matilda Roumania "Repeat" Peters,

       Player/Pioneers

February 27, 2021

Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Is Proud To Present Black Tennis Hall of Fame President Robert "Bob" C. Davis As A PTR ACE Hero!

PTR is proud to present Bob Davis as a PTR ACE Hero!

Some of Bob's Achievements:

President & 2014 inductee in the Black Tennis Hall of Fame

National Program Director of the Ashe-Bollettieri Program

 Hosted PTR ACE workshops

Supported several inner-city tennis initiatives including the Panda Foundation. 

 

February 21, 2021

THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE: West Philadelphia Native Frank Adams To Be Inducted Into The Black Tennis Hall Of Fame

 Writer/Credits:  Mr. Donald Hunt / dhunt@phillytrib.com

 

Frank Adams, who grew up playing tennis in West Philadelphia, will be inducted into the Black Tennis Hall of Fame. Adams will be enshrined as a regional legend at the annual induction ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 July 2-3. The ceremony will take place at the Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center in Dorchester, Mass. 

 

Adams, who was the first African American President of the Colorado Tennis Association, and Intermountain Tennis Association USTA Section, paving the way for Colorado and section leaders. As chair of the Colorado and ITA Minority Participation Committee, he recruited and mentored African Americans to volunteer for the USTA Committees. 

 

Adams knows the value of getting volunteers involved in the game as well as playing tennis on the grassroots level. That’s here his career took off as a player.

 

“I look at it as part of a journey that helped me along,” said Adams, a St. Joseph’s Prep alumnus. “I couldn’t have arrived at this point without all the mentors that helped me out from the times I first started playing tennis.

February 17, 2021

Black Tennis Hall of Fame Congratulates Its Founder, Dr. Dale G. Caldwell As He Is Announced As An Inductee Into The Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2021

 

Tennis Historian, founder of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, creator and co-curator of the original Breaking the Barriers Exhibit, now hosted at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and former USTA Eastern President.

Dale Caldwell is the first of this year's six inductees into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame to be announced. A new inductee will be announced each week. 


A graduate of Princeton University, Dale has tirelessly promoted the history of Black Tennis in the US. He founded the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, and in 2006, he conceived and conjured Breaking the Barriers – currently on exhibition at the International Tennis Hall of Fame – honoring the American Tennis Association and the Black pioneers of tennis.

 

Along with fellow Hall of Famer Nancy Gill McShea, Dale is the author of Tennis in New York, the History of the Most Influential Sport in the Most Influential City in the World. He has served on the Board of Directors of the USTA and was the first Black president of USTA Eastern.

 

January 21, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS BLACK TENNIS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2021!!

 **With Great Honor, We Welcome Each Of You**


Click on the introductory photo above to reach the bios of each of our 2021 inductees and be enlightened by their accomplishments!

December 25, 2020

November 23, 2020

Inducted As A Contributor Into The Black Tennis Hall Of Fame Class Of 2012, The First And Only Black Mayor Of New York City, David N. Dinkins, Dies One Month After His Wife, Former First Lady Joyce Dinkins

In this Monday, Jan. 2, 1990, file photo, David Dinkins delivers his first speech as mayor of New York, in New York. Dinkins, New York City’s first African-American mayor, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. He was 93. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths, File)

 


NEW YORK (AP) — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African-American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a race riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93. 

Dinkins died Monday, the New York City Police Department confirmed. The department said officers were called to the former mayor’s home this evening. Initial indications were that he died of natural causes. 

Dinkins, a calm and courtly figure with a penchant for tennis and formal wear, was a dramatic shift from both his predecessor, Ed Koch, and his successor, Rudolph Giuliani — two combative and often abrasive politicians in a city with a world-class reputation for impatience and rudeness. 

In his inaugural address, he spoke lovingly of New York as a “gorgeous mosaic of race and religious faith, of national origin and sexual orientation, of individuals whose families arrived yesterday and generations ago, coming through Ellis Island or Kennedy Airport or on buses bound for the Port Authority.”

But the city he inherited had an ugly side, too. 

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