Often imitated never duplicated, Venus and Serena Williams are the tennis phenoms that no other player could ever be. The Williams Sisters grew up in…
Althea Gibson ,tennis legend ,won the women’s singles championship in the French Open on May 26,1956,becoming the first Black to win a major tennis title. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Tennis sensations, Venus and Serena Williams both won tournaments on this date in 1999, marking the first time in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) history that sisters won a championship final on the same date. Venus won in Oklahoma City, OK, and Serena won in Paris. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL […]
<strong>Arthur Robert Ashe Jr July 10,1943 – February 6,1993</strong>
<strong>Althea Gibson August 25, 1927 - September 28, 2003 </strong>
VIA: AltheaGibson.Com Born August 25, 1927 in Silver, SC, A right-hander, grew up in Harlem. Her family was poor, but she was fortunate in coming to the attention of Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg VA physician who was active in the black tennis community. He became her patron as he would later for Arthur Ashe, […]
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…
