AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRST ON THIS DAY

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On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson claimed the women’s singles tennis
title at Wimbledon and becomes the first African American to win a championship at London’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet
Club.

Gibson was born on August 25, 1927, in Silver, South Carolina,
and raised in the Harlem section of
New York City. She began
playing tennis as a teenager and went on to win the national
Black women’s championship twice.

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Althea Neale Gibson  (1927 – 2003)

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