When Althea Gibson was born in the South Carolina town of Silver in 1927, her birth certificate made no sense whatsoever. Chalk it up to an overexcited family member or an exhausted midwife; both her ...

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, ...

We were standing near the sculpture of Althea Gibson at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center last Sunday when an African American woman stopped. ”It’s hard not to break into tears standing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Images of Althea Gibson are everywhere at the U.S. Open, 75 years since she became the first Black player at a major tennis tournament. The American Grand Slam event's logo is ...

Even if you’re not a fan of tennis, you’ve probably of heard Venus and Serena Williams, Arthur Ashe, and current U.S. Open women’s champion Coco Gauff. South Carolina native and tennis legend Althea ...

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 represents to black professional tennis players what Jackie Robinson is to American blacks in Major League Baseball. Gibson, a 1950s era player, pioneered the way for Arthur Ashe, Zina ...

Before tennis icons Serena Williams and Coco Gauff took the world by storm, there was Althea Gibson. Before tennis icons Serena Williams and Coco Gauff took the world by storm, there was Althea Gibson ...

Before there was Venus and Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens or Coco Gauff, there was tennis great Althea Gibson. Now decades after becoming the first African-American to win a Grand Slam title, the ...

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 ...