41. BBC SPORT | Tennis | Black Tennis Pioneer Dies Former Wimbledon, US and French Open winner althea gibson dies at the age of 76. The tennis star, who helped to break down colour barriers in sport, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3147336.stm

Home TV Radio Talk ... Question of Sport CHOOSE A SPORT Select Football Cricket Rugby U Rugby L Tennis Golf Motorspt Boxing Athletics Snooker Racing Cycling Disability Sport Other N Ireland Scotland Wales Last Updated: Sunday, 28 September, 2003, 17:37 GMT 18:37 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Black tennis pioneer dies Gibson paved the way for black stars like the Williams sisters Former Wimbledon winner Althea Gibson has died at the age of 76. The tennis star, who helped to break down colour barriers in sport, was the first black woman to compete at the US Open in 1950 and at Wimbledon in 1951. And she went on to win both titles in 1957 and 1958, also adding a French Open to her list of honours. Gibson had been seriously ill for years and died at East Orange General Hospital in New Jersey. She was responsible for raising the profile of black athletes at a time when prejudice was common. Gibson won her first tournament at 15, becoming the New York State black girls' singles tennis champion. Have Your Say Your tributes to Althea After her ground-breaking appearances at the US Open and Wimbledon, she was almost driven out of the game due to a loss of form.

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Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, A right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Her family was poor, but she was fortunate in coming to the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg VA physician who was active in the black tennis community. He became her patron as he would later for Arthur Ashe, the black champion at Forest Hills (1968) and Wimbledon (1975). Through Dr. Johnson, Gibson received better instruction and competition, and contacts were set up with the USTA to inject her into the recognized tennis scene. A trailblazing athlete who become the first African American to win championships at Grand Slam tournaments such as Wimbledon, the French Open, the Australian Doubles and the United States Open in the late 1950s. Gibson had a scintillating amateur career in spite of segregated offerings earlier in the decade. She won 56 singles and doubles titles during her amateur career in the 1950s before gaining international and national acclaim for her athletic prowess on the professional level in tennis.

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ALTHEA GIBSON By: Ashely Paul Althea Gibson was born on August 25,1927, in Silver, South Carolina, but moved to New York City in 1930. Gibson was the first African American female to win a major tennis tournament. Althea Gibson broke the color barrier at Wimbledon. As a little girl Gibson disliked school with a passion and because of this unfortunate dislike, Gibson often played hooky. She thought she was getting away from her distaste of school, but she was fooled. Each time Gibson played hooky her father would find out and whip her. Gibson never did blame her father, actually she believed, when she was punished she deserved it. When Gibson was young she loved to play sports, basketball was her first favorite. Gibson then became a highly competent paddle tennis player. She received a tennis racket from a friendly musician, and she immediately took heed to the game. Gibson¹s future in school then took a turn; she quit high school because she could not stand classes. With school out of the way, Gibson began competing in girls¹ tournaments under the patronage of The American Tennis Association, which was almost all black. She ended up attracting two tennis playing doctors as mentors in 1946 named Herbert Eaton of North Carolina and Robert W. Johnson of Virginia, who were both active in the black tennis community. Herbert Eaton took Gibson into his family during the school year; Robert Johnson had her during the summer. Eaton and Johnson provided Gibson with tennis lessons and straightened her out academically; she went back to high school to finish her education. She graduated in 1949 in Wilmington, NC, at the age of 21. However, before Gibson could do anything, another challenge had to be defeated.

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50. Althea Gibson althea gibson was a dominant force in women s tennis. Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, South Carolina, gibson, a righthander, grew up in Harlem. http://purpleplanetmedia.com/bhp/pages/agibson.shtml

Althea Gibson (b. 1927) No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. Surmounting the obstacles of poverty and racism, Althea Gibson reached the pinnacle of her sport against the odds, becoming the first African American woman to win a major tennis tournament. In 1956, Gibson broke the color barrier at a major tournament by becoming the first black person to win the French championships. The next year, she did it again by winning both Wimbledon and the US Nationals, and repeated these two tournament wins the following year for good measure. Althea Gibson was a dominant force in women's tennis. Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, South Carolina, Gibson, a right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Gibson disliked school but she was very good at sports. Her favorite was basketball but it was paddle tennis that started her on the way to her destiny. Displaying an awesome talent, she was given a tennis racquet by a friendly musician and immediately took to the game. She then quit school and devoted her time to tennis, playing in tournaments organized by the American Tennis Association, which was predominantly black. Mentored both academically and in tennis by two black doctors, Herbert Eaton of North Carolina and Robert W. Johnson of Virginia (who later mentored

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Althea Gibson (b. 1927) Previous page She was a 5-foot-11 right-hander, extremely athletic, had good foot speed, a strong serve and preferred to play an attacking game, but she had to fine-tune her game in the face of stiffer competition. It was not until 1956 that she broke through, as she became more consistent on the base line. She became the first black woman to win the French Open. Unfortunately, this was her only appearance at the French. She also won the women's doubles at the French and became the first black to win at Wimbledon by capturing the women's doubles title there. In 1957 and 1958 she reigned supreme, ranking number 1 in the world and voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Her bumper year was in 1957: she won Wimbledon and the US title, adding the women's doubles at the former and the mixed doubles at the latter. At Wimbledon, the United Press reported that "Althea had command of her game right from the start. The rangy New Yorker with the best serve in women's tennis dropped her service only once." In 1958, she repeated at Wimbledon and at Forest Hills, where she also won her third Grand Slam women's doubles title. Despite her success on the court, the specter of segregation hounded her. She was still barred from some clubs where prestigious tournaments were played.

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Need some good information fast on African American history? We've got what you're looking for with our selection of more than 300 reference articles. Article provided by: Encyclopaedia Britannica Althea Gibson (Born Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, S.C., U.S.) American tennis player who dominated women's competition in the late 1950s. She was the first African American to win the Wimbledon and U.S. singles championships. Gibson grew up in her native Silver, South Carolina, 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, which she would hold 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. I Always Wanted to Be Somebody , appeared in 1958. In 1971 she was elected to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame.

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Home Educators Government Officials Medical Researchers ... Athletes Gibson, Althea Althea Gibson was born near Sumter, South Carolina in 1927. She is best known for her athletic accomplishments including being named the woman athlete of the year in 1957. She earned this title by winning the All-England Women's singles at Wimbledon, the United States Women's day-court championship in Illinois, and the U.S. Open in New York all in the same year. She was a very talented tennis player: at only 15 years of age she was the New York State black girls tennis singles champion. She defended her title in 1958, by again winning the U.S. Open and the Wimbledon Championship. She not only played tennis, but her talents also extended to golf. Later, in 1963, she joined the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association), displaying her golf skills to the world. She was recognized for her outstanding talent again in 1971 with her induction into the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame.

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Today's Date: Online Edition July 1-7, 2004 Opinions College News Social Scene Religion Our HiStory BLACK HISTORY Tennis player paved the way for black women players By Rahkia Nance Black History Editor One young girl named Althea Gibson lived in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. Her family was on welfare. She was a client of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She had trouble in school and was often truant. She ran away from home frequently. 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. Later that year, Althea Gibson entered the Forest Hills, New York, national grass court championship, the first African American player of either sex to be allowed to enter. Gibson then became the first African American invited to enter the all-England tournament at Wimbledon, playing there in 1951. In celebration of this American win and her achievement as an African American, New York City greeted her with a ticker tape parade.

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Gibson, Althea (1927-...) Althea Gibson (Library of Congress photo) Althea Gibson became the first important black tennis player. She was one of the leading women amateur players from 1950 to 1958, and dominated women's tennis in 1957 and 1958. Gibson won singles titles in the United States National Championships (now the U.S. Open) and the All-England (Wimbledon) Championships in 1957 and 1958. She also played on the winning U.S. teams in the Wightman Cup meets for American and British women both years. Gibson was born in Silver, S.C., and grew up in New York City. She began playing amateur tennis in the early 1940's. She retired from tennis in 1958, and became a professional golfer.

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PaddleTennis.Biz info@paddletennis.biz Search Now: PaddleTennis.biz, LLC Unless otherwise indicated, all materials on these pages are property of PaddleTennis.Biz. Goodbye Althea - 9/28/03 Gibson, first black to win Wimbledon, U.S. titles, dies at 76 Sept. 28, 2003 SportsLine.com wire reports Althea Gibson, a sports pioneer who broke the color barrier in tennis in the 1950s as the first black woman to win Wimbledon and U.S. national titles, died Sunday. She was 76. Gibson had been seriously ill for several years and died at East Orange General Hospital in New Jersey, where she had spent the last week, according to Darryl Jeffries, a spokesman for the city of East Orange. Althea Gibson was named Woman Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958. (AP) Gibson was the first black to compete in the U.S. championships, in 1950, and at Wimbledon, in 1951. However, it wasn't until several years later that she began to win major tournaments, including the Wimbledon and U.S. championships in 1957 and 1958, the French Open, and three doubles titles at Wimbledon (1956-58). "Who could have imagined? Who could have thought?" Gibson said in 1988 as she presented her Wimbledon trophies to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

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