UPDATE | Win Tickets to the 2011 US Open Courtesy of ArthurAshe.org

In celebration of Black History Month, "ArthurAshe.org" takes a look at the year 1968. They have an interview with Arthur Ashe  and are offering an Essay Contest with a chance to win four (4) tickets to the U.S. Open this summer in New York City. For more details, visit:  http://www.arthurashe.org.

Black History Month: Inspirational quotes by Carter G. Woodson, Maya Angelou, and Arthur Ashe

What Carter G. Woodson had to say about "Education Reform"

Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin life as they find it and make it better... Carter G. Woodson from "The Mis-Education Of The Negro", Africa World Press, Inc.,  Washington, D.C., 1990

Carter G. Woodson
1875 - 1950

Maya Angelou on "The Dream"

‎"Your ancestors took the lash, the branding iron, humiliations and oppression because one day they believed you would come along to flesh out the dream." --Maya Angelou from the America I AM Journal, Edited by Clarence Reynolds, Smiley Books

Dr. Maya Angelou
1928-2014

Let's Get Started...with Arthur Ashe

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. --Arthur Ashe, Humanitarian and World Class Tennis Star

1943 - 1993