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Althea Gibson

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Noun1.Althea Gibson - United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)


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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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