Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before she became the first Black person to win Wimbledon, Althea Gibson spent part of her youth in Wilmington. A Williston High ...

Althea Gibson, the trailblazing athlete who won 11 Grand Slam tennis titles and later became the first Black golfer to compete on the LPGA, remains an unfamiliar name to many in the world of golf.

A new biography, "Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson" by Sally H. Jacobs, delves deeply into the experiences of a woman who, despite her remarkable accomplishments, is not very well ...

A Black tennis player at the top of her game challenges an umpire’s calls during a tournament and the backlash is swift. Immediately after the match, an Australian newspaper runs a cartoon depicting ...

ALTHEA: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson. By Sally H. Jacobs. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Althea Gibson, born in South Carolina, was growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, her father ...

For decades, Althea Gibson’s fame was inescapable. The first Black woman to win Wimbledon and the first to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, among numerous other achievements, the American ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American to ...

As you might expect from an individual sport, tennis has had its share of independent-minded men and women who wished no part of hierarchy, dared to think differently and were willing to suffer the ...

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Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The press continued to build up the hype in the days before Wimbledon, ...

She is possibly the single most famous graduate of Wilmington's Williston High School. Althea Gibson: The woman who broke the color bar in American tennis, the first person of color to win Wimbledon, ...