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Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, – September 28, ) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis.


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Althea Gibson is noted not only for her exceptional abilities as a tennis player, but for breaking the color barrier in the s as the first African American to compete in national and international .

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Althea Gibson [1] American tennis player Althea Gibson once characterized herself as a "Harlem street rebel," referring to her adolescence in New York [2] City, when she .
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On August 28, , a year-old Althea Gibson set foot on one of the outer courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, home of the U.S. National Championships.