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Sports Biographies Alpha Index Index by Sport Index of Women Gibson, Althea Tennis b. Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, SC d. Sept. 28, 2003 Something of a tomboy as a youngster in Harlem, Gibson played basketball, stickball, and paddle tennis. She won her age group New York City paddle tennis championship in 1939 and then began taking lessons at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. In 1946, a well-to-do black doctor, Hubert Eaton of Wilmington, NC, took her in to help advance her career. Barred from public courts because she was black, she practiced on Dr. Eaton's backyard court. Gibson began playing in the all-black American Tennis Association tournaments in 1945 and won ten straight women's singles titles, from 1947 through 1956. She was the first black to play in the national indoor tournament, in early 1950, and she finished second, which should have won her an invitation to the U. S. National at Forest Hills. No invitation came until after a letter from former champion Alice Marble appeared in the July issue of American Lawn Tennis magazine. Marble wrote, in part, "If Althea Gibson represents a challenge to the present crop of players, then it's only fair that they meet this challenge on the courts." It took Gibson a while to adjust to the stronger competition she was now facing, but she broke through by winning the French and Italian singles championships in 1956. She also teamed with Angela Buxton to win the women's doubles events at Wimbledon and in the French championship.

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Home About Us Enshrinees Calendar of Events Museum Membership Press Center Tournament Facility Use Lawn Tennis Club Indoor Tennis Club Professional Instruction Architectural History Information Research Center Hall of Fame Awards Newport Casino Tennis Links Contact Information Directions CLASS OF 1971 Born: August 25, 1927, Silver, South Carolina, United States Died: September 28, 2003 Citizenship: United States Handed: Right BIOGRAPHY No player overcame more obstacles to become a champion than Althea Gibson, the first black to win at Wimbledon and Forest Hills. Her entry in the U.S. Championships of 1950 at Forest Hills was historic: the first appearance of an American black in that event. It took seven more years for Gibson to work her way to the championship there, in 1957. Tennis was pretty much a segregated sport in the U.S. until the American Tennis Association, the governing body for black tournaments, prevailed on the U.S. Tennis Association to permit the ATA female champion, Gibson, to enter Forest Hills. Two years earlier in 1948, Dr. Reginald Weir, a New York physician, was the first black permitted in a USTA championship, playing in the U.S. Indoor event. Althea's first appearance at Forest Hills was not only a notable occasion it was nearly a moment of staggering triumph. Making her historic debut in a 6-2, 6-2 win over Barbara Knapp, she encountered in the second round third-seeded

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Modern Era (1946 - present) Althea Gibsona woman of many "firsts" Althea Gibson Won Again! July 6, 1957 Have you ever been the first person to do something? Maybe in a sport or at school? Long before Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, or Chris Evert won the women's singles title at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in England, there was Althea Gibson. Gibson not only won the title on July 6, 1957, she was the first African American (male or female) to win a tennis championship at Wimbledon. The Wimbledon title was just the beginning of a long line of Gibson "firsts." page 1 of 3 Library Of Congress Legal Notices Privacy Site Map ... Contact Us

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showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Personalities Dictionary Encyclopedia WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Althea Gibson Personalities Althea Gibson Tennis Player Born: 25 August 1927 Birthplace: Silver, South Carolina Died: 28 September 2003 (respiratory failure) Best Known As: The first black woman ever to win a major tennis singles title 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. Gibson is often compared to her fellow tennis pioneer Arthur Ashe and to two 21st-century African-American tennis stars

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Gibson, Althea Althea Gibson receiving congratulations from her opponent, Darlene Hard, for winning the Wimbledon singles finals, 1957 Corbis-Bettmann (1927- ), tennis player Born on August 25, 1927, in Silver, South Carolina, Althea Gibson grew up there and in New York City. She began playing tennis at an early age under the auspices of the New York Police Athletic League, and in 1948 she won the national Negro women's title and held it for 10 consecutive years. While attending Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, she continued to play in tournaments around the country and in 1950 became the first African-American tennis player to enter the national grass court championship tournament at Forest Hills, Queens, New York. The next year she entered the Wimbledon tournament, again as the first African American ever invited. Until 1956 Gibson had only fair success in match tennis play, but that year she won a number of tournaments in Asia and Europe, including the French and Italian singles titles and the women's doubles title at Wimbledon. In 1957-58 she won the Wimbledon women's singles and doubles titles and took the U.S. women's singles championship at Forest Hills. She also won the U.S. mixed doubles and the Australian women's doubles in 1957. Having worked her way to top rank in world amateur tennis, she turned professional following her 1958 Forest Hills win. She won the women's professional singles title in 1960, but with few tournaments and prizes for women at that time she took up professional golf in 1963. From 1973 she became active in sports administration, mainly for the state of New Jersey. Her autobiography

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'Overlooked Heroine' Net results from Gibson's remarkable career sometimes lost in shuffle Althea Gibson Perhaps there remains, even today, a certain amount of racism and sexism that Althea Gibson must battle. In our nation's selective memory of greatest athletes ever, our three-minute sound-byte world of daring dunks, touchdown runs and towering home runs, rarely is Gibson named as one of the best and most significant athletes of our time. But by any standard, she probably was. Born on a cotton farm in South Carolina, where her parents were sharecroppers, Gibson was long and lean, extremely strong, with a bit of attitude. "I was mischievous," Gibson said. "I got into things a lot." And generations of African-American athletes can only thank Gibson for getting into as many things as she did. She would become the first black athlete - male or female - allowed into United States Lawn Tennis Association tournaments. She would be the first African-American to win a Wimbledon singles title, the first to play at the U.S. Open in Forest Hills, N.Y., and the first to play in the French Open. She was the first to win the U.S. Open. And after a remarkable career that spanned almost 20 years and yielded nearly 100 professional titles, including five Grand Slam crowns, Gibson took up golf and became the first African-American to earn an LPGA card.

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Home About Us Enshrinees Calendar of Events Museum Membership Press Center Tournament Facility Use Lawn Tennis Club Indoor Tennis Club Professional Instruction Architectural History Information Research Center Hall of Fame Awards Newport Casino Tennis Links Contact Information Directions CLASS OF 1971 Born: August 25, 1927, Silver, South Carolina, United States Died: September 28, 2003 Citizenship: United States Handed: Right BIOGRAPHY No player overcame more obstacles to become a champion than Althea Gibson, the first black to win at Wimbledon and Forest Hills. Her entry in the U.S. Championships of 1950 at Forest Hills was historic: the first appearance of an American black in that event. It took seven more years for Gibson to work her way to the championship there, in 1957. Tennis was pretty much a segregated sport in the U.S. until the American Tennis Association, the governing body for black tournaments, prevailed on the U.S. Tennis Association to permit the ATA female champion, Gibson, to enter Forest Hills. Two years earlier in 1948, Dr. Reginald Weir, a New York physician, was the first black permitted in a USTA championship, playing in the U.S. Indoor event. Althea's first appearance at Forest Hills was not only a notable occasion it was nearly a moment of staggering triumph. Making her historic debut in a 6-2, 6-2 win over Barbara Knapp, she encountered in the second round third-seeded

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