FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ON TENNIS TOUR

Top Quotes from Althea Gibson!

On August 21, 1950, officials of the United States Lawn
Tennis Association
accepted Althea Gibson into their
annual championship at Forest Hills,
New York, making
her the first African American player to compete in a U.S.
national tennis competition.

Althea Gibson Early Life, Championships Legacy HISTORY, 49% OFF
Althea Neale Gibson
(August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003

Gibson survived a heart attack in 2003, but died on
September 28 that year from complications following
respiratory and bladder infections. Her body was
interred in the
Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New
Jersey
, near her first husband, Will.

Bronze statue of Althea Gibson
Statue of Gibson by Thomas Jay Warren in Newark, New
Jersey
, near the courts (in background) on which she ran
clinics for young players in her later years.

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