{"value"=>"<p>Series documents Ashe's service on boards of directors, committees, and advisory panels concerned with causes that he championed, such as anti-apartheid activities, efforts to develop tennis players from impoverished urban areas, increasing college graduation rates of black athletes, and AIDS research and outreach. Organizations include the Aetna Life & Casualty Company, African American Athletic Association, Inc., Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid, Athlete-Career Connection/Safe Passage Foundation, Ashe-Bollittieri Cities Tennis Program (ABC), Harvard AIDS Institute, Virginia Heroes, TransAfrica, and several benefit committees. The records of these organizations comprise correspondence with Ashe regarding his board and committee work, memoranda, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and notes of meetings.</p> <p>There is little material documenting Ashe's long service on the board and as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), although there is correspondence and clippings during his last year, 1983, concerning a lawsuit against the ATP by the World Championship Tennis tour (WCT) and a disciplinary matter involving Ashe's friend, Yannick Noah. Similarly, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) file reflects only some of Ashe's USTA activities, such as his efforts to provide training opportunities for minority players while serving on the Player Development Committee.</p> <p>Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid, founded by Ashe and Harry Belafonte in 1983, includes a memorandum concerning strategy for its boycott of South Africa, as well as pamphlets and clippings. The African American Athletic Association material comprises correspondence, reports, and notes by Ashe for conferences and workshops organized to mentor high school athletes, as well as correspondence with Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe concerning fundraising efforts after his death. The TransAfrica folders contain correspondence and printed material about Ashe's trip as a member of a delegation to South Africa in 1991. Of particular interest are notes kept by Ashe during the trip regarding meetings he attended and people he met, among them Nelson Mandela. There is also a draft of a letter, written shortly before Ashe died, to African National Congress official Thabo Mbeki regretting that he could not travel again to South Africa and briefly commenting on apartheid and Haiti.</p>"}