Oscar Johnson (died March 2019Pioneer, Legend and Hall of Famer Oscar Johnson Has Passed, blacktennishalloffame.com (access: July 16, 2019).) was an American tennis player who was the first black person to win a United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) tournament – the Long Beach Junior Open on July 4, 1948, age 17.Paul Fein, Tennis Confidential, Washington 2002, p. 254. He was honored by the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, and inducted to the Black Tennis Hall of Fame in 2010.2010 Hall of Fame Inductees, blacktennishalloffame.com (access: July 16, 2019).
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