Besides making history like Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson felt the same sting of racism as the baseball pioneer did just a few years before her. She also later cracked the color barrier at Wimbledon.

It was there she recognized ... Later in 1998, the Althea Gibson Foundation was created to help young people in urban areas develop their tennis and golf skills. Gibson died in 2003.

On Monday, Day 1 at the US Open and Women's Equality Day, a statue of Althea Gibson was unveiled in Flushing ... that would allow her to do what she did. She didn't just break the color barrier.

The first African American to win the Wimbledon Singles Title moved to Wilmington in 1946: Althea Gibson. Gibson started training at the home of Dr. Hubert A. Eaton and graduated from Williston High ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States Tennis Association will honor Althea Gibson with a statue ... selected a sculptor for the statue of Gibson, who died in 2003 at age 76.