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Gibson, Althea
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Gibson, Althea (ălthē`ə), 1927–2003, African-American tennis player, b. Silver, S.C. In 1948 she won the first of 10 straight national black women's singles championships. She was the first African American to play in the U.S. grass court championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. (1950), and at Wimbledon, England (1951). In addition to many international tournament victories, she won the French women's singles championship in 1956 and the U.S. and British championships in both 1957 and 1958. She retired from competition in 1958. In 1971 she was named to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame.

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See her autobiography, I Always Wanted to Be Somebody (1958).


Gibson, Althea

(born Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, S.C., U.S.—died Sept. 28, 2003, East Orange, N.J.) U.S. tennis player. She was the first black player to win the French (1956), Wimbledon (1957–58), and U.S. Open (1957–58) singles championships. She won a total of 11 grand-slam events. Ranked first in the U.S. in 1957 and 1958, she was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press both years, the first African American to receive that honour.


Gibson, Althea (1927–  ) tennis player; born in Silver, S.C. The first black player to win a major tennis championship, she won the Italian (1956–57), Wimbledon (1957–58), and the U.S. Open (1957–58). After retiring from tennis, she became a professional golfer on the ladies' tour.


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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.
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.
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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