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Gibson, Althea Gibson receiving congratulations from her opponent, Darlene Hard, for winnig the Wimbledon singles finals, 1957 Corbis-Bettmann (b. Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, S.C., U.S.), American tennis player who dominated women's competition in the late 1950s. She was the first black to win the Wimbledon and U.S. singles championships. Gibson grew up in Harlem in New York City and in 1950 became the first black athlete to play Forest Hills, narrowly losing to third-seeded Louise Brought in the second round. She graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, in 1953, and rose to sudden prominence in 1956, becoming the first black to win a major titlethe Wimbledon doublesas well as the French singles and doubles and the Italian singles. She went on to win the Wimbledon singles and doubles and the U.S. singles in 1957-58, as well as the U.S. mixed doubles and the Australian women's doubles (in 1957). Gibson turned professional in 1958, but women's professional tennis at that time offered few tournaments and prizes. After winning the U.S. professional women's title in 1960, she became a professional golfer in 1963, with moderate success. She married William Darben in 1965 and attempted professional tennis again, after open tennis started in 1968, but without much success. In 1971 she was elected to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1975 she was named athletic director for the state of New Jersey.

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24. Althea Gibson Tennis Pioneer Dies Throughout her successful amateur tennis career, althea gibson contendedwith racial discrimination and bigotry. Many hotels refused http://www.gibbsmagazine.com/Althea Gibson.htm

by Susan Robinson Althea Gibson Late last year Ms. Althea Gibson died. A legend for being the first Black woman to break the color code in female tennis, Ms. Gibson paved the way for our African American tennis stars of today, like the Williams sisters. Althea Gibson overcame the barrier of segregation with her talent and determination , becoming the first African American athlete to compete and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in Forest Hills, NY. She also became the first African American to play in the French Open and the first to play in American Lawn Tennis tournaments. Gibson was born in 1927, in South Carolina, but grew up in Harlem. A tall, athletic teen with an affinity for competition, she was winning table tennis tournaments sponsored by the Police Athletic League and the NYC Parks Department when she was discovered by musician and P.A.L., coach Buddy Walker. He gave her a tennis racket and arranged for her to learn tennis. Later in her life, Gibson told a biographer that " I just found I had a skill at hitting that ball. And I enjoyed the competition

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27. Althea Gibson althea gibson American athlete, first African American to win major tennis tournaments.An article at Africana.com. Click here to visit our advertiser. http://www.africana.com/research/encarta/tt_185.asp

magnum('heritage') Browse Africana Home Research Center Channels: Blackworld Heritage Lifestyle Movies and TV Music Books People Arts Funstuff Health and Beauty Services: Africana Box Office Radio Africana Political Action Center Open Source Talk Back Welcome Guest Sign In Register Home Encarta Africana > Althea Gibson Althea Gibson Althea Gibson, who moved with her family to Harlem at the age of three, was from an early age involved in many competitive sports. Gibson began to play tennis in Police Athletic League paddle tennis games. In 1945, she won the girls' singles championship of the all-black American Tennis Association (ATA), and from 1947 to 1956, she held the title for the ATA women's singles. In 1946, Gibson moved to North Carolina to live with Dr. Hubert Eaton, who, along with Dr. R. Walter Johnson, took an interest in her career. Under their tutelage, Gibson's game matured, and she developed her fast footwork and signature big serve. In 1953, Gibson graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. During the 1950s, she began to challenge racial segregation in tennis by playing at tournaments sponsored by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (later renamed United States Tennis Association), which had previously been restricted to white players. In 1950, Gibson became the first black competitor at the National Championships (later renamed the U.S. Open) in Forest Hills, New York. She was invited to compete only after Alice Marble, a four-time singles winner at Forest Hills, expressed her disgust at the efforts to stop Gibson from playing because of her race. In 1951, Gibson was the first black person to play tennis at the Lawn Tennis Championships at the All-England Club in Wimbledon, England.

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The Library of Congress Althea Gibson Althea Gibson Carl Van Vechten, photographer, November 20, 1958. 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. Gibson went on to win two U.S. National championships and to become the first African American to win the U.S. Nationals and the French Championship. Between 1956 and 1958, she brought home several major titles, including the French Open singles and doubles, the Italian Open singles, Wimbledon singles and doubles, and the U.S. Open singles. In 1957, and again in 1958, Gibson was selected as athlete of the year by the Associated Press, the first black female so honored. In 1971, she was voted into the National Lawn Tennis Association Hall of Fame.

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Althea Gibson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Althea Gibson August 25 September 28 ) was an American sportswoman. As a tennis player, she became the first African-American woman to play at the United States Tennis Championships and at Wimbledon Born in Silver, South Carolina , Gibson was raised in Harlem, New York , where she excelled in tennis, but also competed in golf and basketball . At the age of 15, she won the first of ten national championships in a row in the all-black American Tennis Association . In , she graduated from on a tennis and basketball scholarship, and moved to Jefferson City, Missouri In , Gibson became the first African-American to compete in the National Grass Court Tennis Championships, the precursor to the US Open . In , she won the French Championships and went on to play in the Australian tennis tournament circuit. The following year, she broke the color barrier at Wimbledon. In and , she won back-to-back at the U.S. Championships at Forest Hills, New York and at Wimbledon. She also won the French Open and three consecutive Wimbledon doubles titles from through 1958.

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33. Biography Of Althea Gibson 1958, Wins Wimbledon and Forest Hills; retires from amateur tennis. 1959, Releasesa record album, althea gibson Sings; appears in a film, The Horse Soldiers. http://www.altheagibson.com/bio.html

Chronology August 25, 1927 Althea Gibson born in Silver, South Carolina. Moves to New York City. Starts taking tennis lessons at Harlem's Cosmopolitan Club. Enters and wins her first tournament, sponsored by the all-black American Tennis Association (ATA). Moves to Wilmington, North Carolina, to work on her tennis game with Dr. Hubert A. Eaton; enrolls in high school there. Wins the first of ten straight ATA National Championships. Enters her first outdoor United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) tournaments; plays in the U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. Competes in the All-England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon for the first time. Starts working with tennis coach Sydney Llewellyn. Travels throughout Southeast Asia on a U.S. State Department-sponsored goodwill tennis tour. Wins the French Championships; tours the Australian tennis tournament circuit. Wins the All-England Championships at Wimbledon and the U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. Wins Wimbledon and Forest Hills; retires from amateur tennis.

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Encyclopedia Gibson, Althea [alth E u Pronunciation Key Gibson, Althea , African-American tennis player, b. Silver, S.C. In 1948 she won the first of 10 straight national black women's singles championships. She was the first African American to play in the U.S. grass court championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. (1950), and at Wimbledon, England (1951). In addition to many international tournament victories, she won the French women's singles championship in 1956 and the U.S. and British championships in both 1957 and 1958. She retired from competition in 1958. In 1971 she was named to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame. See her autobiography, I Always Wanted to Be Somebody The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Gibran, Kahlil Gibson, Charles Dana Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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Distinguished Women of Past and Present First Page Name Index Subject Index Related Sites ... Search Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta Althea Gibson Gibson, Althea (1927- ), American professional tennis player and golfer, who was named woman athlete of the year for 1957. She was born near Sumter, South Carolina, and educated at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. At the age of 15 she was New York State black girls' singles tennis champion; this was the first of many titles she would hold during the next 15 years. In 1957 she won the All-England women's singles championship at Wimbledon, the United States women's clay court singles championship at River Forest, Illinois, and the U.S. Open at Forest Hills in New York City. For these achievements she was named woman athlete of the year for 1957 by the Associated Press. After repeating as Wimbledon and U.S. national champion in 1958, she played professional exhibition tennis in 1959-60 and joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1963. She was named in 1971 to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame. "Gibson, Althea"

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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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Althea Gibson, a pioneer in professional tennis! Home What Happened on Your Birthday? Search the Registry by Category ... Contact August 25 Althea Gibson Althea Gibson was born on this date in 1927. She was an African-American tennis player. 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.

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