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Arthur Ashe

Michael talks with television reporter Jane Olsen from WRIC about the controversy in Richmond, Virginia surrounding the erection of a stature of Arthur Ashe. Ashe, who won Wimbledon 20 years ago this month was a native of Richmond and many people want to erect his statue on Monument Avenue, the site of many civil war monuments. But some say he neither belongs there nor should stand with the very people who sought to oppress his race.

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