In time, the whole world would come to know the name of Althea Gibson as a global tennis sensation and sports legend. The daughter of sharecroppers, the Gibson family had moved north in 1929 in ...

Althea Gibson, who dropped out of school ... It took a written rebuke by American Alice Marble, a four-time US Nationals champion, to spark change. Marble wrote an editorial in a 1950 issue of ...

Author Ashley Brown will speak at the Los Angeles Tennis Club on her new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea ...

If you’re interested in learning more about one of the most legendary characters in the history of the Grand Slam, read on to find out a few key facts about Gibson ... an M.A. in Magazine ...

Jacobs - Author, Althea ... in Gibson’s favor in the first round, it decidedly did not in the second. Her next opponent was America’s No. 2 woman player, veteran Louise Brough, three-time ...

Like Hoad, Althea ... MISS GIBSON AND LEW HOAD AT WIMBLEDON ARE THEMSELVES. THEY ARE, WITHOUT DOUBT, THE BEST PLAYERS.” Compounding the anticipation was the fact that, for the first time ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American ...

South Carolina native and tennis legend Althea Gibson paved the way for these African American tennis greats. In 1956, Gibson was the first Black tennis player to win a Grand Slam. She won 11 ...