Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson walked onto the lawns of the All England Club in 1957 and walked off with the Venus Rosewater Dish — the first Black player, man or woman, to win Wimbledon. Raised on 143rd Street in Harlem and shaped by paddle tennis on Police Athletic League courts, she rose through the American Tennis Association circuit before Alice Marble's 1950 open letter in American Lawn Tennis finally forced the USLTA to let her play Forest Hills. She won the French Championships in 1956 and back-to-back Wimbledon and U.S. Nationals titles in 1957 and 1958 — eleven Grand Slam trophies in all. When tennis offered no money to amateurs, she turned to the LPGA and in 1964 became the first Black woman on the professional golf tour. New York threw her a ticker-tape parade twice.
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”
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Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson walked onto the lawns of the All England Club in 1957 and walked off with the Venus Rosewater Dish — the first Black player, man or woman, to win Wimbledon. Raised on 143rd Street in Harlem and shaped by paddle tennis on Police Athletic League courts, she rose through the American Tennis Association circuit before Alice Marble's 1950 open letter in American Lawn Tennis finally forced the USLTA to let her play Forest Hills. She won the French Championships in 1956 and back-to-back Wimbledon and U.S. Nationals titles in 1957 and 1958 — eleven Grand Slam trophies in all. When tennis offered no money to amateurs, she turned to the LPGA and in 1964 became the first Black woman on the professional golf tour. New York threw her a ticker-tape parade twice.
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”
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