Tally Holmes
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title:
Tally Holmes
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Talley Robert "Tally" Holmes was an American tennis player in the 1910s and 1920s. Holmes was among the founders in 1916 of the American Tennis Association (ATA). Holmes and other representatives from dozens of black tennis clubs met in Washington, D.C., on Thanksgiving Day to create a more organized way for black youths to participate in tennis. At the time they were excluded from white tennis clubs, but the sport was attracting black athletes in leading Black colleges. The group of men created
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American tennis player
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_Holmes
date created:
2007-04-12T01:56:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T11:00:00Z
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