Tennis players at the New York State Negro Tennis Championships, at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club in New York City, August 1940. From left to right: Louise Graham, Mt. Vernon, NY; Katheryn Neal, Columbia, SC; Katheryn Watson, Columbia, SC; Vivian Russell, Columbia, SC; Myrtle Beavers, New York City; Beryl Lyroke, Boston MA and Lamarr Turpi, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Photo by Bettman/Corbis
I wish I saw this picture as a young tennis player. I may have still played had I not felt so out of place.