Citizen Ashe
Rex Miller
Run Time: 1:34
Filmmakers Rex Miller; Sam Pollard; AFS Envoy: Rex Miller (Director)
AFS’s license for screening this title ends on August 31, 2025. No screenings can be scheduled after this date.
Citizen Ashe is the story of sports legend and social activist Arthur Ashe. Known to most by his stellar sports career – Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open winner and the first black player to be selected for the US Davis Cup Team – this film uncovers Ashe’s personal evolution; how his activism grew and embraced not only the Civil Right movement and African-Americans but all oppressed peoples throughout the world. Ashe died of AIDS-related complications in 1993 and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom the same year.
