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.

She didn't just break the color barrier. She became the best in ... "I think it's really important for people to know about Althea Gibson. Not only who she is but what she represented to all ...

On day three of Black History Month, The Post and Courier honors Althea Gibson, the first black player at the French and U.S ...

Althea Gibson will be honored with a statue at the site of the US Open, the USTA announced on Tuesday. In 1950, Gibson broke tennis' color barrier by becoming first African-American to play in ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of ... who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. Brown says that people have called Gibson the Jackie Robinson of tennis and even ...