Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe won three Grand Slam tennis titles and was the first African-American selected for Davis Cup play in 1963. He became the top tennis player in the world while also creating the Association of Tennis Professionals and raising awareness against South African apartheid. Ashe learned that he was HIV positive in 1988, presumably due to an earlier blood transfusion. Ashe came forward as an HIV patient and created the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS. He died in 1993.
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