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Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis.
Nov 9, 2009 · Trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson became the first great African American player in women’s tennis. She won a string of American Tennis Association titles on the African American...
Apr 2, 2014 · Althea Gibson became the first African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first Black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951.
Althea Gibson (born August 25, 1927, Silver, South Carolina, U.S.—died September 28, 2003, East Orange, New Jersey) was an American tennis player who dominated women’s competition in the late 1950s. She was the first Black player to win the French (1956), Wimbledon (1957–58), and U.S. Open (1957–58) singles championships.
Feb 7, 2022 · On August 28, 1950, a 23-year-old Althea Gibson set foot on one of the outer courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, home of the U.S. National Championships.
Aug 8, 2023 · Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson. Prize-winning former Boston Globe reporter Sally H. Jacobs tells the heart-rending story of this pioneer, a remarkable woman who was a...
Althea Gibson was the American Tennis Association (ATA) junior champion, and repeated the next year. Althea Gibson won the first of her ten-consecutive ATA singles championships. Althea Gibson became the first African-American to be permitted to compete in the U.S. National Championships.
Tennis champion Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the unlikely queen of the segregated tennis world in the 1950s. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S....
Aug 25, 2022 · Althea Gibson was the first Black player to win Wimbledon. Soon, the block in Harlem where she grew up will bear her name.
Sep 28, 2003 · On Aug. 28, 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier in baseball, that Althea Gibson became the first black player to compete in the national tennis championship.
