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.