Before there was Venus and Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens or Coco Gauff, there was tennis great Althea Gibson. Now decades after becoming the first African-American to win a Grand Slam title, the ...

Althea Gibson was one of the greatest athletes of all time and a groundbreaking woman in not one but two sports. Gibson was best known for her tennis career, as she was the first African American to ...

Tennis fans, mark your calendars! The 2025 US Open is hitting new milestones. This year’s theme art will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Althea Gibson breaking the color barrier. Jamaican-born ...

She is possibly the single most famous graduate of Wilmington's Williston High School. Althea Gibson: The woman who broke the color bar in American tennis, the first person of color to win Wimbledon, ...

If you have been enjoying the US Open over the last two weeks, you’ve probably seen some incredible artwork featuring the profile of Althea Gibson, but you may not be familiar with the groundbreaking ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Althea Gibson is a trailblazer. There are few better words to describe the Florida A&M alum. She was one of the first Black athletes to break the color line in tennis and ...

As Women’s History Month closes, we take a closer look at Althea Gibson, the Black American two-sport athlete whose legacy is still being celebrated even 20 years after her death. It may be 50 years ...

New York — As the U.S. Open got underway in New York on Monday, a tennis pioneer received an honor that was long overdue, when a monument to Althea Gibson was unveiled. In the 1950's, Gibson became ...

At Wimbledon in 1957, the No. 1-seeded woman, New York’s Althea Gibson, teamed up with Australian Neale Fraser in the mixed-doubles draw. Fraser was a hard-charging lefty who would become the world’s ...

Her athletic performance in New York impressed onlookers of all colors and cracked opened the door for a new generation of Black players to come By Sally H. Jacobs - Author, Althea: The Life of Tennis ...