{"value"=>"<p>The <em>A Hard Road to Glory</em> sub-series contains a vast amount of research material on which Ashe based his three-volume <em>A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete</em>, as well as numerous drafts, correspondence, and financial records. The research material is comprised primarily of articles and clippings from the African-American and mainstream press. However, it also includes programs containing historical background information, such as the 50th anniversary of the Harlem Globetrotters, the 50th anniversary of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the 1975 Hampton-Virginia Union football game, 1982 and 1984 Negro Leagues reunions, and the 1984 opening of the Major Taylor cycling velodrome, as well as yearbooks and rosters, research notes, a few replies to questionnaires from football players in the 1920s and 1930s, and correspondence concerning Alain Locke as a rower while at Oxford. This material is organized by individual sports, including boxing, horse racing, cycling, track and field, baseball, football, basketball, tennis, golf, wrestling, and Olympic sports. The tennis folders are among the most extensive, including correspondence about players, printed material, and research notes, particularly concerning the career of Richard Hudlin, Ashe's coach and mentor. Additional material documents sports in which fewer African Americans have participated, such as lacrosse, ice hockey, crew, rodeo, swimming, soccer, and auto racing.</p> <p>The sub-series also contains Ashe's original book proposal, handwritten and typed notes, lists of sources, chronologies, transcripts of interviews, and copies of scholarly articles and manuscripts collected by Ashe and his research assistants. These include draft typescripts by sports historian Ocania Chalk for an unpublished biography of boxer Joe Gans and material included in his published works, <em>Black College Sports</em> (1976) and <em>Pioneers of Black Sport: The Early Days of the Black Professional Athlete in Baseball, Basketball, Boxing and Football</em> (1975). The correspondents include research assistants, manuscript readers, team and college officials, and the public, which offered leads after the initial publicity for Ashe's project and the appearance of his author's queries in newspapers seeking information. The publishing history may be traced through correspondence with publishers, contracts, permission forms, sales figures, and printed and promotional material.</p> <p>The drafts for <em>A Hard Road to Glory</em> trace the development of the book. They comprise Ashe's original handwritten and typed manuscripts in a linear narrative style; typed drafts of the manuscript after he reorganized it by individual sport into volumes I (1619-1918), II (1919-1945), and III (1946-1988); and the final copy-edited drafts. Much of volume III was written after Ashe reorganized the manuscript chronologically and by sport. Therefore, little of the material contained in volume III is found in the early drafts. The drafts also contain lengthy appendices listing individual and athletic conference champions in all sports. Ashe placed the conference material at the end of volume II regardless of its actual time period in order to locate it all in one place. (Some draft appendices marked \"vol. III\" were later moved to volume II.) The sub-series also contains page proofs, which do not include some of the appendices, and galleys.</p>"}