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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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.

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.

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.

Before tennis icons Serena Williams and Coco Gauff took the world by storm, there was Althea Gibson. Gibson cemented herself in history as the first African American to cross the color line to ...

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: ...

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 ...