American tennis player Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003) holding the Venus Rosewater Plate after winning the women's singles final at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 5th 1958.

Althea Gibson broke color barriers in professional tennis and golf and went on to become the No. 1 tennis player in the world. Her athletic career is explored in the new book, "The Life of Tennis ...

"Althea" should go a long way toward correcting the record. Book review 'ALTHEA: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson' By Sally W. Jacobs St. Martin's, $32 ...

Gibson was the first black tennis player to win the U.S. Nationals, back-to-back, in 1957 and 1958—years in which she also won Wimbledon, watched by hostile British spectators.

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 ...

There aren't many tennis players today like Althea Gibson. She was the first significant black tennis player in the world, dominating the sport's amateur ranks from 1947 to 1957 and the ...

The seeds of Brown’s interest in Gibson were planted early in her life. Brown remembers, as a third-grader, coming across a book about Gibson during a trip to the library.

Fans of Gibson can get a taste of the upcoming book by reading Jacobs’ piece published in the New York Times this week titled “Before Serena, there was Althea.” ...

1Community, Access Entertainment and Four Daughters are teaming on an adaptation of The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a ...

Sally H. Jacobs, in her biography ‘Althea,’ traces the arc of tennis star Althea Gibson, for whom fighting was a mode of survival By Clea Simon Globe Correspondent,Updated August 10, 2023, 5: ...

Althea Gibson was born in 1927 in Silver, South Carolina. Gibson, the oldest of four siblings, and her family soon migrated to Harlem, where they planted their roots on 143rd Street.