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Althea Gibson - Black History - HISTORY.com  Trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson became the first great African-American player in ... she became the first black player to win Wimbledon and the French and U.S. Open titles. ... Wimbledon and U.S.Open titles followed in 1957 and 1958. In all, Gibson powered her wayto 56 singles and doubles championships before...
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Althea Gibson - Golfer, Tennis Player, Athlete - Biography.com  Feb 4, 2016 ... Althea Gibson was the first African-American tennis player to ... 1951, she became the first African American to play at Wimbledon. Gibson won the women's singles and doubles at Wimbledon in 1957, and won the U.S. Open...
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Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon - Jul 06 ...  Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon ... (In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, when he defeated Jimmy ... In September 1957, she won the U.S. Open, and the Associated Press named her Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958.
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Althea Gibson - International Tennis Hall of Fame  Five were in singles: the French in 1956, Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958, and the ... of accomplishment, Gibson became the first African-American to compete on the ... family, won the French Open and Wimbledon Ladies Singles Championship in ... She was athletic as a youth, gravitating toward basketball and paddle tennis,...
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Althea Gibson - Wikipedia  Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927  September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title (the .... Later in the season she won the Wimbledon doubles championship (again...
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ESPN Classic - Billie Jean won for all women - ESPN.com  She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Margaret Court. ... "I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match," she said. ... She was the only female athlete on the list, and one of only four athletes ... King became the first woman athlete to earn $100,000 in prize money in a...
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. ... She is also the only tennis player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate .... 1 Hingis to become the second African-American woman after Althea Gibson in 1958 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament.
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Black History Month - Althea Gibson's 1950 Appearance At The U.S. ...  1999-2000: The Williams sisters each win their first Grand Slam singles titles Serena, the 1999 US Open and Venus, Wimbledon in 2000. ... In 1981, she won the Avon Championships, becoming the first African-American woman to win a major tennis tournament since Althea Gibson's 1958 U.S. Open victory. Allen is now...
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History - 1990s - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official ...  The Swede went on to win the US Open in 1991 and 1992. ... since Bjorn Borg, and the first American to win Wimbledon since John McEnroe in 1984. ... John McEnroe collected his fifth Wimbledon men's doubles title as he and Michael ... By doing so, Martinez became the first  and to date only  Spanish woman to lift the...
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Jeopary Questions page 237 - LATINOS IN HOLLYWOOD ...  FIGURE SKATERS: In 1986 she became the 1st black woman to win the ... Arthur set up the diamond jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments all won by this knight ... KING ARTHUR: Arthur's round table had a seat reserved for the knight who...
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Best Ever: Top performances by African-American players headline ...  Feb 9, 2011 ... Before the summer was out, the 23-year-old Gibson became the first ... the idea of crowning undisputed champions in an "Open Era" held massive ... defending champion at Forest Hills, winning the 1967 tournament. ... 3, was destined to be the first African-American woman to win it all in Flushing Meadows.
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Between 1966 & 1975, this woman won the Wimbledon singles 6 ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... Between 1966 & 1975, this woman won the Wimbledon singles 6 times & beat Bobby # Quiz # Question ... No views. FirstAmVideo ... Frank Sinatra ad-libbed Scooby Dooby Doo in this 1966 No. 1 hit # Quiz # Question. 0:29.
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6 years after her 1957 Wimbledon win, this tennis great turned pro ...  Jul 5, 2016 ... 6 years after her 1957 Wimbledon win, this tennis great turned pro golfer ... 6 foot 2, eyes of blue, this pilot was Time's Man of the Year for 1927...
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Tennis's reluctant transgender pioneer - BBC News - BBC.com  Jun 26, 2015 ... When tennis player Renee Richards won the right to compete as a woman in the ... Born Richard Raskind, tennis was a huge part of her life from an early age. ... But when she started competing in tennis tournaments her 6ft 2in .... Richards continued to play in the US and Latin America until retiring in 1981.
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Life Story - Arthur Ashe | Conscious Leader, Humanitarian, Educator ...  In 1950 Arthur met Ronald Charity, one of the best black tennis players in the nation ... tennis under Johnson's instruction and in 1958 became the first African-American to ... During his time in the army he continued to play tennis, participating in the ... Okker of the Netherlands on September 9, 1968 to win the first U.S. Open.
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Arthur Ashe - Tennis Player, Activist - Biography.com  Jul 15, 2016 ... Arthur Ashe is the first African American to win the men's singles at Wimbledon .... In 1979, he retired from competition after suffering a heart attack, and wrote a history of African-American athletes: A Hard Road to Glory (three...
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Arthur Ashe - Wikipedia  Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943  February 6, 1993) was an American World No. 1 professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles. Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team ..... In 1988, Ashe published a three-volume book titled A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the...
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List of career achievements by Serena Williams - Wikipedia  This page lists various career, tournament, and seasonal achievements by tennis player ... By winning the 2003 Australian Open, became the first African-American to win ... Upon winning the 2016 Wimbledon singles title, she became the only player, ... She is only the fourth woman in the Open Era to win a tournament six or...
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Before Simone Biles, These Women Broke Barriers - The New York ...  Aug 10, 2016 ... She won't even be the first black woman to win the all-around gold at ... down the fact that I was the only African American with a gold medal, ... Kim Zmeskal, world champion in 1991, followed by Shannon Miller ... An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated when Nastia Liukin won the all-around title.
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On This Day - The New York Times  Browse important events in history by clicking on each date to see a featured archival ... Day. January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September ..... July  6, In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a .... In the week that followed, 34 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured.
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Winter Olympics 2014: Vonetta Flowers' legacy blooms for black ...  Feb 18, 2014 ... As women's two-man bobsled begins in Sochi on Tuesday, the U.S. team ... Flowers was the first black athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter ... sizeVonetta Flowers, pictured in 2005, became the first black athlete ... 2 and 3, respectively. ... and 10th Americans to compete in Summer and Winter Olympics.