TOW (& Answer)...
The question was
who was Althea Gibson. Althea Gibson
was a tennis player. She won singles
and doubles championships at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958 and won the U.S. Open
in those same years. Gibson was the
first African American person to win a tennis title. To quote from my source “Gibson forged into the previously
all-white field of women’s tennis with the conviction that racism could not
stop her, and she handled difficult situations with grace and earthy humor that
brought her a firm following among American sports fans.”
The question (and answer)
were taken from p. 186 of Great Women in Sports by Anne Janette Johnson. The book was
published by Visible Ink in 1996.
