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Gibson, Althea (1927-2003)

US tennis player, the first black American woman to compete at the US Championships at Forest Hills in 1950 and at Wimbledon in 1951. In 1957 she took both the women's singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon and the singles at Forest Hills. In 1958 she successfully defended all three titles. She ended her career with 11 Grand Slam titles.

Born in Silver, South Carolina, USA, and raised in New York, Gibson was hindered in her tennis career by racial discrimination and segregation. In 1943 she won the New York State Negro girls' singles title, and in 1948 the national Negro women's title. She later played professional golf.
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It would be some thirty years later when the late Althea Gibson (1927-2003) would come on the tennis scene from Harlem via the Harlem Cosmopolitan Tennis Club.
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Just three years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Althea Gibson, in 1950, followed suit when she became the first African American to compete in the U.
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She is the coauthor of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson (Wiley, August, 2004), which includes an Afterword by Venus Williams, and Rise and Fly: Tall Tales and Mostly True Rules of Bid Whist (Three Rivers Press, August 2005).
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