Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which African-American athlete died of AIDS on this day in 1993?"
Arthur Ashe is the only African-American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. He is also the first African-American man to be ranked as the No. 1 tennis player in the world. He would also become the first African-American man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Arthur Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6, 1993.