Fun, Fun, Fun. Althea Gibson was only one year old in 1928 when her parents decided that Manhattan’s swarming West 143rd Street offered more opportunity than their cotton-poor farm in Silver ...

when Gibson was 23 years old, she was permitted to play at the U.S. Nationals, becoming the first black to compete in the tournament. Besides making history like Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson ...

ALTHEA GIBSON collapsed while giving a speech in East Orange, N.J., Tuesday night and has been hospitalized in Newark for unspecified treatment. The 64-year-old Gibson, whose 56 major ...

02 A metaphorical lightning strike at Gibson's debut Gibson was 23 years old when she entered the public ... She began singing, even releasing a jazz record, “Althea Gibson Sings,” through ...

This was Althea Gibson, the 25-year-old from New York who had broken tennis’ color barrier in 1950 by becoming the first black player to enter the U.S. Nationals, and who would go on to become ...

When Althea Gibson dreamed of joining the big American tennis leagues, she was denied because she was Black. In Britain, ...

Also, why you will continue to swelter on the subway platform. By James Barron Althea Gibson was the first Black player to win Wimbledon. Soon, the block in Harlem where she grew up will bear her ...

Althea never cried ... consenting to contact with only a handful of her old friends.” Gibson hung on for another dozen years, ...

Althea Gibson will be honored with a statue at the site of the US Open, the USTA announced on Tuesday. In 1950, Gibson broke tennis' color barrier by becoming first African-American to play in ...

Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to ... Nadia Comaneci, a 14-year-old Romanian, becomes the first gymnast to receive a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event.

The incident was the latest courtroom drama Gibson has had with his ex-wife, Samantha Lee, over child support for their 5-year-old daughter, Soraya. Gibson reportedly squared off with the judge ...

1 / 18JP Gibson, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2012, signed a one-day contact with the Jazz on Monday. 1 / 18JP Gibson, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia ...