African Activist Archive

Copy of a letter to Mr. W.E. Hester, President of the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), about South African participation in the U.S. Open in Forest Hills. The letter expresses thanks for sending a copy of Hester's letter of June 9, 1977 to Jewell Gresham. Gresham's group, the Coalition of Concerned Black Americans, has joined with ARENA and 13 other national religious, civil rights, political, and sports groups in a coalition know as ACCESS, the American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society, the purpose of which is to end apartheid sport in South Africa. The letter says the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) is in violation of several United Nations resolutions and is the only major sports federation in which South Africa still competes for an international championship. The mailing discusses the Olympic Movement, the Davis Cup, the Nationalists, Arthur Ashe, the South African Tennis Federation, SANLTU, Piet Koornhof, Papwa Sewgolum, the Natal Open Golf Championship, SANLTU, the International Advisory Commission to End Apartheid Sport, sports boycotts, and the United Methodist Church and its Women's Division.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Mr. Hester]

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