Althea Gibson: The Wimbledon Champion Who Beat The Odds
From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 7/18/2023
The world of tennis in the 1940s wasn't made for someone of Althea Gibson's background.She was the descendent of slaves, and grew up in South Carolina with the nearest tennis courts available to an African American at that time being hundreds of miles away.How did Althea Gibson go on to become the…
