On day three of Black History Month, The Post and Courier honors Althea Gibson, the first black player at the French and U.S ...
All this glory also arrived with other firsts as she became he first Black woman to appear on the covers of Sports Illustrated ... releasing a jazz record, “Althea Gibson Sings,” through ...
Before Althea Gibson could play -- much less ... Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. Gibson was born Aug. 25, 1927, in the small town of Silver, S.C. The family ...