Althea Gibson, the daughter of a South Carolina sharecropper who became the first African American player, man or woman, to win the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Wimbledon and the French Open ...

The sudden announcement of the renaming to Althea Gibson Way comes after continued friction over the change between Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey and Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor ...

Just before the start of the US Open tennis tournament, a sculpture honoring Althea Gibson was unveiled outside Arthur Ashe Stadium. Gibson, who died in 2003 at the age of 76, broke the sport's ...

Before Althea Gibson could play -- much less win -- major tennis tournaments, another opponent had to be defeated. But Gibson had less control against this foe, which went by the name segregation.

As such, it’s important to revisit one of the most pioneering figures to grace the U.S. Open's grounds, the trailblazing Althea Gibson. Gibson made history in 1957 as the first Black American to ...

Althea Gibson lived in Wilmington only three years. But Wilmington changed her, and she changed Wilmington. She arrived on the train on a September morning in 1946, a truant teenager from the ...