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Althea Gibson was the first African-American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951.
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She also broke racial barriers in professional golf.
Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina on August 25, 1927.1951, 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 in 1958.
At a young age, Gibson moved with her family to Harlem, a neighborhood in the borough of New York City.Gibson struggled in the classroom, often skipping school all together. However, Gibson loved to play sports especially table tennis and she soon made a name for herself as a local table tennis champion.
She won a local tournament sponsored by th