| Sports:
Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Althea Gibson’s
trail-blazing tennis career delivered a crushing defeat to segregation.
The poor South Carolina girl learned to play championship tennis at recreation
and club programs in Harlem, New York. Gibson’s success in the all-black
American Tennis Association (ATA) gave her the confidence she needed to
pursue the sport. Here, Gibson holds court at Wimbledon, 1957.
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