Imagine you are a black person, in the 1900’s. Think about the certain things you could do because of your skin. The limited places you could go, the separated water fountains, always going to sit in the back of the bus. That’s what it was like to be black back then.With sports, things were worse. Blacks couldn’t play in certain tournaments, but that all changed with the U.S. Open, a tournament where blacks and whites compete. In that tournament, two blacks, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe, competed and won the U.S. Open at different dates. They made history and broke racial boundaries. That raises the question: Who makes a better hero?

Arthur Ashe is a hero because of his life. He worked to his death after his tennis career. He did have a bad heart( medically) which related to his death until 50. The only reason he died so young was because he had a heart attack. He had previous heart attacks before hand, and a blood transfusion using bad blood lead to his AIDS( said from Biography.com and the article “Arthur Robert Ashe” by Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition). Despite his health, he persevered until his death in 1993. …show more content…
Althea was a professional tennis player and golfer. She broke the racial boundaries and gender boundaries when she won tennis tournaments. After retiring from tennis, she took on golf and retired not soon after that. Unlike Ashe, she did not have heart problems, but respiratory problems instead. She lived to 76, where she died of respiratory failure in 2003.She then lived in seclusion until her death. When she died, Google honored her with a doodle(Time magazine by Rhodan,