Tony Corley speaks with a ready smile and a surfers twang as he recalled his letter to SURFER Magazine that sparked his founding of the Black Surfing Association. The year was 1974 and Corley was living in the California coastal auspices of Point Hueneme working and surfing, and cogitating on finding other surfers of color in a community where he was isolated because of his race.
“I had plenty of white surfer friends,” said Corley. “But I was looking for other black surfers out of a need for a sense of belonging within a culture that wasn’t always accepting of blacks.”   … More