HALL OF FAMER ALTHEA GIBSON DIES The International tennis Hall of Fame mourns the loss of althea gibson, a 1971 Hall of Famer. Below is the information released by the Associated Press. http://www.tennisfame.org/PressCenter/gibson.html
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National Women's Hall Of Fame - Women Of The Hall In 1942, at the age of 15, althea began playing in the American tennis Association althea gibsons tremendous feats continue to inspire generations of http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=186
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ESPN.com: Althea Gibson Broke Barriers althea gibson broke barriers By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com. Before althea gibson could play much less win major tennis tournaments, http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014035.html
Extractions: 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. Jackie Robinson played in the major leagues (1947) before a black was permitted to play tennis at the U.S. National Championships. But cracks soon developed in the lily-white sport. And finally, in 1950, when Gibson was 23 years old, she was permitted to play at the U.S. Nationals, becoming the first black to compete in the tournament. Besides making history like Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson felt the same sting of racism as the baseball pioneer did just a few years before her. She also later cracked the color barrier at Wimbledon. In 1956, Gibson made history by becoming the first black person to win the French championships. The next year, she made more history by winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, the first black to win either. She must have liked winning the world's two most prestigious tournaments, too, because she repeated the accomplishments in 1958. The 5-foot-11 right-hander had a strong serve and preferred to play an attacking game. An athletic woman, she had good foot speed, which allowed her to cover the court. As the years went on, she became more consistent from the baseline. Including six doubles titles, she won a total of 11 Grand Slam events on her way to the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Extractions: 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. Jackie Robinson played in the major leagues (1947) before a black was permitted to play tennis at the U.S. National Championships. But cracks soon developed in the lily-white sport. And finally, in 1950, when Gibson was 23 years old, she was permitted to play at the U.S. Nationals, becoming the first black to compete in the tournament. She also later cracked the color barrier at Wimbledon. In 1956, Gibson made history by becoming the first black person to win the French championships. The next year, she made more history by winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, the first black to win either. She must have liked winning the world's two most prestigious tournaments, too, because she repeated the accomplishments in 1958. The 5-foot-11 right-hander had a strong serve and preferred to play an attacking game. An athletic woman, she had good foot speed, which allowed her to cover the court. As the years went on, she became more consistent from the baseline. Including six doubles titles, she won a total of 11 Grand Slam events on her way to the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Extractions: Biography Noteworthy People Deaths ... G - L Althea Gibson Age: professional tennis player who was the first black person to play in and win Wimbledon and the United States national tennis championship. She won both tournaments twice, in 1957 and 1958. In all, Gibson won 56 tournaments, including five Grand Slam singles events. Died: East Orange, N.J., Sept. 28, 2003 Maurice Gibb G - L Tom Glazer Althea Gibson Althea Gibson - Althea Gibson Born: Aug. 25, 1927 Tennis won both Wimbledon and U.S. championships in 1957 and '58; ... This Day in History: September 28 This Day in History: July 06 - July 6 Yesterday Tomorrow 1535 Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's ...
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Althea Gibson: A Who2 Profile althea gibson tennis Player. gibson was a tennis sensation in the 1950s, a daughter of tennis Hall of Fame althea gibson A good basic biography, http://www.who2.com/altheagibson.html
Extractions: ALTHEA GIBSON Tennis Player Gibson was a tennis sensation in the 1950s, a daughter of sharecroppers whose triumph at the French Tennis Championships of 1956 made her the first black woman ever to win a major singles title. The next year she won singles titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships, and repeated the feat in 1958. Gibson retired as an amateur after the 1958 season, having become an acclaimed public figure. She later toured as a celebrity with the Harlem globetrotters and then (like Babe Zaharias ) chose golf as a second career, playing on the LPGA tour from 1964-71. She was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Extractions: Entries Publication Data Dedication Advisory Board ... World Civilizations The Great American History Fact-Finder , tennis player. After winning the first of ten consecutive national Negro women's singles titles in 1948, Gibson rose quickly in the tennis ranks. She became the first black athlete to play Forest Hills, Long Island, in 1950 and the first black American invited to Wimbledon in 1951, capturing both the British and the U.S. singles championships in 1957-58. As the first black tennis player to win all the world singles titles for women, she turned professional in 1959 to win the women's professional singles crown in 1960.
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Extractions: Althea Gibson Gibson, first black to win Wimbledon, U.S. titles, dies at 76 NEW YORK Althea Gibson, a sports pioneer who broke tennis' color barrier in the 1950s as the first black entrant and champion at Wimbledon and the U.S. national tournament, died Sunday. She was 76. Althea Gibson was named Woman Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958. (AP) Gibson, also the first black player on the LPGA Tour, helped pave the way for later stars such as Arthur Ashe , Venus and Serena Williams , and Tiger Woods "I am grateful to Althea Gibson for having the strength and courage to break through the racial barriers in tennis," former No. 1 Venus Williams said Sunday. "Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself, Serena, and many others to come, her legacy will live on." Martina Navratilova, who won her 172nd career doubles title Sunday in Leipzig, Germany, called Gibson "a great champion and great person." "Her life was very difficult, but she broke down a lot of barriers and doors and made it easier for a lot of us," Navratilova said.
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Extractions: From Silver, South Carolina, the family moved to Harlem in New York City when she was three. Growing up there, Gibson disliked going to school so much that she often played hooky. What Gibson liked to do was play sports; at first basketball was her favorite, then paddle tennis. Then a friendly musician gave her a tennis racket, and she immediately took to the game. She quit high school not because of tennis but because she couldn't stand classes and began competing in girls tournaments under the auspices of the American Tennis Association, which was almost all black. In 1946, she attracted the attention of two tennis-playing doctors, Hubert Eaton of North Carolina and Robert W. Johnson of Virginia, who were active in the black tennis community. Soon-to-be welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson and his wife, who had befriended Gibson, advised her to go south. She did. Each doctor took her into his family Eaton during the school year, Johnson in the summer. Not only did they provide tennis instruction, they also straightened her out academically. She went back to high school for her last three years and graduated in 1949 in Wilmington, North Carolina. As the two-time winner of the national black women's tennis championship, Gibson thought she had a good case for being admitted to the 1950 U. S. Nationals.
Today In History: July 6 On July 6, 1957, althea gibson won the women s singles title at Wimbledon. She was the first African American to win a tennis championship at the historic http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul06.html
Extractions: Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964 On July 6 Born in Silver, South Carolina in 1927, Gibson grew up in New York's Harlem, a haven for black artists, musicians, and intellectuals in the 1920s. She took her first tennis lesson at the age of 14 after receiving a tennis racket as a gift. A year later, she won her first tournament in a match sponsored by the American Tennis Association, a mainly African-American league. Gibson won the national black women's championship twice before attempting to gain entry into the U.S. National Tennis Championships in 1950. When it appeared that Gibson would not be admitted, Alice Marble, a four-time winner of the event, spoke out on her behalf in a letter to the American Lawn Tennis magazine. The United States Lawn Tennis Association then invited Gibson to the tournament, where she was the first African American to compete for the U.S. Nationals.
Althea Gibson First Black tennis champion althea gibson dies in East Orange, NJ, at 76. Charleston tennis Center Honors althea gibson. The State ( April 16, http://www.usca.edu/aasc/AltheaGibson.htm
Extractions: Althea Gibson Even those with little interest in sports generally recognize the names of such great athletes as Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams, and Arthur Ashe. But those who follow tennis and golf more closely know the name of Althea Gibson, an athlete who broke many barriers and made it possible for other African-Americans to follow in her footsteps. She was born in Silver in Clarendon County on August 25, 1927*, the eldest of five children of a sharecropper. At the age of three, Gibson moved north with her family to Harlem, NY. As she grew up living in a rough neighborhood, she sometimes got into fights with other children, both boys and girls. Tall and athletically built, she was able to hold her own (Gibson, 10-14). The young girl loved sports, especially basketball, but as she noted in her autobiography, any kind of ball would do (Gibson, 9). In an era when professional sports were closed to African-Americans, Gibson grew up playing paddleball on the streets of New York through a Police Athletic League program. Paddleball is similar to tennis but players use a different kind of racket and play on a smaller court. By the time she was 12, she was winning citywide championships (Ballard).
BBC SPORT | Tennis | An American Pioneer Nearly 50 years ago, althea gibson became the first black woman to win the 28 Sep 03 tennis. RELATED INTERNET LINKS. Official althea gibson website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3147986.stm
Extractions: Venus and Serena Williams' rise from the public courts in Watts and Compton, Los Angeles, to the top of the women's rankings is a captivating tale. It is no surprise the pair have become role models to young aspiring tennis players, but when referring to the inspirational force behind their own careers, one name consistently pops up. Gibson enjoyed success at Wimbledon and the US Open Nearly 50 years ago, Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win the US Open, having achieved the same feat at Wimbledon months earlier. Gibson sadly passed away at the weekend, but her contribution to breaking down racial barriers in sport will not be forgotten. However Gibson preferred to focus on the struggles on court rather than off it.
