She is possibly the single most famous graduate of Wilmington's Williston High School. Althea Gibson: The woman who broke the color bar in American tennis, the first person of color to win Wimbledon, ...

A recent biography of the complicated tennis legend underlines the sport’s persistent challenges with race, class, and celebrity. Ad Policy American tennis star Althea Gibson hits a return shot to ...

Some biographical subjects, like Althea Gibson, a world-class athlete and breaker of racial barriers, are just bigger than a single biography can encompass. So the question becomes, for each biography ...

At Wimbledon in 1957, the No. 1-seeded woman, New York’s Althea Gibson, teamed up with Australian Neale Fraser in the mixed-doubles draw. Fraser was a hard-charging lefty who would become the world’s ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American to ...

For decades, Althea Gibson’s fame was inescapable. The first Black woman to win Wimbledon and the first to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, among numerous other achievements, the American ...

ALTHEA: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson. By Sally H. Jacobs. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Althea Gibson, born in South Carolina, was growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, her father ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1950, Althea Gibson became the first Black person to compete at the U.S. National Championships—the ...

As you might expect from an individual sport, tennis has had its share of independent-minded men and women who wished no part of hierarchy, dared to think differently and were willing to suffer the ...

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