Althea Gibson : Tennis Champion althea gibson tennis Champion. Author Tom Biracee. Format Paperback.Published July 1990. ISBN 087067563X. List Price $3.95. Click http://www.allbookstores.com/book/087067563X
Extractions: Born and reared in depression era Harlem, Althea grew up a rebellious child with a dislike for school. Her saving grace was her ability on the tennis court, which allowed her not only to break the racial barrier in professional tennis but also to become the first black woman tennis champion of the world. Add this book to your wish list View your wish list Click on this books subject categories to see related titles:
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Extractions: Althea Gibson Perhaps there remains, even today, a certain amount of racism and sexism that Althea Gibson must battle. In our nation's selective memory of greatest athletes ever, our three-minute sound-byte world of daring dunks, touchdown runs and towering home runs, rarely is Gibson named as one of the best and most significant athletes of our time. But by any standard, she probably was. Born on a cotton farm in South Carolina, where her parents were sharecroppers, Gibson was long and lean, extremely strong, with a bit of attitude. "I was mischievous," Gibson said. "I got into things a lot." And generations of African-American athletes can only thank Gibson for getting into as many things as she did. She would become the first black athlete - male or female - allowed into United States Lawn Tennis Association tournaments. She would be the first African-American to win a Wimbledon singles title, the first to play at the U.S. Open in Forest Hills, N.Y., and the first to play in the French Open. She was the first to win the U.S. Open. And after a remarkable career that spanned almost 20 years and yielded nearly 100 professional titles, including five Grand Slam crowns, Gibson took up golf and became the first African-American to earn an LPGA card.
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Extractions: ALTHEA GIBSON Tennis Player Gibson was a tennis sensation in the 1950s, a daughter of sharecroppers whose triumph at the French Tennis Championships of 1956 made her the first black woman ever to win a major singles title. The next year she won singles titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships, and repeated the feat in 1958. Gibson retired as an amateur after the 1958 season, having become an acclaimed public figure. She later toured as a celebrity with the Harlem globetrotters and then (like Babe Zaharias ) chose golf as a second career, playing on the LPGA tour from 1964-71. She was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Extractions: of Congress. Tennis, which first came to the United States in the late 19th century, by the middle of the 20th century had become part of a culture of health and fitness. Public programs brought tennis to children in poor neighborhoods, though those children couldn't dream of playing in the elite tennis clubs. 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. She also played paddle tennis in public recreation programs. Her talent and interest in the game led her to win tournaments sponsored by the Police Athletic Leagues and the Parks Department. Musician Buddy Walker noticed her playing table tennis, and thought she might do well in tennis. He brought her to the Harlem River Tennis Courts, where she learned the game and began to excel.
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Extractions: Althea Gibson was born on August 25, 1927 in Silver, South Carolina. Her family moved to Harlem, which is where she spent most of her childhood. Developing an interest for tennis or any other sport was hard because she was banned from public courts for being black. She was taken in by a well-off doctor and given the opportunity to play tennis on his private court. Not a lot is known about her child hood but her accomplishments as a black female in sports are forever marked in history. She began her amateur tennis career in the early 1940's. Gibson was one of the leading women in amateur tennis during the 1950's. She broke the color barrier of the American Lawn Tennis league in 1956 after Alice Marble (a white player) stood up for her rights. After doing so, Gibson took both the French and Italian titles. In 1957 Althea Gibson became the first black player to win at Wimbledon. That same year, the 5'10" star was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the year. In 1958, she retired from tennis and signed to play basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. She also pursued a professional career in golf. Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Sports Hall of Fame for a great tennis career in which she won at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open several times. She is more similar to
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Extractions: Before Althea Gibson could play much less win major tennis tournaments, another opponent had to be defeated. But Gibson had less control against this foe, which went by the name segregation. Jackie Robinson played in the major leagues (1947) before a black was permitted to play tennis at the U.S. National Championships. But cracks soon developed in the lily-white sport. And finally, in 1950, when Gibson was 23 years old, she was permitted to play at the U.S. Nationals, becoming the first black to compete in the tournament. She also later cracked the color barrier at Wimbledon. In 1956, Gibson made history by becoming the first black person to win the French championships. The next year, she made more history by winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, the first black to win either. She must have liked winning the world's two most prestigious tournaments, too, because she repeated the accomplishments in 1958. The 5-foot-11 right-hander had a strong serve and preferred to play an attacking game. An athletic woman, she had good foot speed, which allowed her to cover the court. As the years went on, she became more consistent from the baseline. Including six doubles titles, she won a total of 11 Grand Slam events on her way to the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Extractions: 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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Extractions: Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964 On July 6 Born in Silver, South Carolina in 1925, 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.
Extractions: 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, N.C.
Extractions: Establishes Tennis Scholarship Althea Gibson Foundation Scholarship Honors Professional Tennis Player Althea Gibson (CHARLOTTE, NC, July 7, 2000) A $2,000 scholarship will be awarded each year to a JCSU female tennis player with a 3.0 GPA or higher. Back to News Releases Admissions Academics Library ...
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Extractions: 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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Extractions: 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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Extractions: Althea was born on a cotton farm in South Carolina; her parents were sharecroppers. A New York Police Athletic League coach who saw Althea playing paddleball in Harlem encouraged her to play tennis. In 1948 she won the first of ten straight national black women's singles championships. While being interviewed by a biographer Althea recalled, "I just found that I had a skill at hitting that ball. And I enjoyed the competition." In 1957, Gibson became the first African-American woman to not only compete, but to win a Wimbledon singles title. In 1958, Gibson was both a Wimbledon and U.S. National tennis champion. "People thought I was ruthless," Gibson said. "I was. I didn't give a darn who was on the other side of the net. I'd knock you down if you got in the way. I just wanted to play my best." Althea retired from competition in 1958. In 1971, she was named to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame. After a remarkable career and almost 100 professional titles, including five Grand Slam crowns, Althea took up golf and became the first African American to earn an LPGA card. In 1958, her autobiography I Always Wanted to Be Somebody was published.
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Extractions: 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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Extractions: Althea Gibson was a pioneer in women's tennis, paving 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
