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Who Was Althea Gibson? 1st Black Woman To Break Barriers In Tennis
Despite many obstacles, Gibson made history as the 1st Black woman to compete at Wimbledon & win a Grand Slam. She remains an ...
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February is Black History Month. Celebrate in RI with tours, poetry, music and more
Tennis great Althea Gibson, one of the first Black athletes ... business and community leader, athlete and a life-long resident of the city. All month. “On the Rhode: A Roadside Guide to African ...
Black legends of South Carolina sports: Part one
Allison Feaster, Lindell Bradley, Althea Gibson, William "The Refrigerator" Perry, Dawn Staley, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn off our ...
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19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
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Black History Month: 19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
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19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
From the 1940s to the 2000s, Gordon Parks’ photojournalism focused on poverty, civil rights, race relations, and urban life ... there was Althea Gibson. Gibson was the first Black American ...