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Althea Gibson: Tennis Player (Ferguson Career Biographies) by Michael Benson, 2005-11-30 Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters by Cecil Harris, Larryette Kyle-DeBose, 2007-07-25 Althea Gibson: Young Tennis Player (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Beatrice Gormley, 2005-01-06 Althea Gibson: Tennis Player (Ferguson Career Biographies) by Michael Benson, Changing the Game: The Stories of Tennis Champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson (Women Who Dared Series) by Sue Davidson, 1997-05-12 Tennis for Anyone! (Revised Edition) by Sarah; Sarah Palfrey (Author); Althea Gibson (Foreword); Gladys M. Heldm Plfrey, 1977-01-01 Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson by Frances Clayton Gray, Yanick Rice Lamb, 2004-08-26 Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson by Sue Stauffacher, 2007-08-14 The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders--One Black, the Other Jewish--Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History by Bruce Schoenfeld, 2004-06-01 Althea Gibson (Black American) by Tom Biracree, 1990-12 Playing To Win: The Story Of Althea Gibson by Karen Deans, 2007-08-09 I Always Wanted to Be Somebody by Althea Gibson, 1958-06 The Match: Althea Gibson and a Portrait of a Friendship by Bruce Schoenfeld, 2005-05-31 GIBSON, ALTHEA: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed.</i> by Arthur, JR. Ashe, 2006

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1. Althea Gibson - MSN Encarta
   Gibson, Althea (19272003), American professional tennis player and golfer. The first black player to win major national tennis titles, Gibson was a  
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   http//espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/gibson_althea.html Althea Gibson broke barriers By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com Before Althea Gibson could play  
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   Extractions: Jackie Robinson played in the major leagues (1947) before a black was permitted to play tennis at the U.S. National Championships. But cracks soon developed in the lily-white sport. And finally, in 1950, 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.

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    Extractions: The contents has been generating using technology developed by scientec. Althea Gibson Althea Gibson August 25 September 28 ) was an American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour on August 22 . She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the " color barrier edit Born in Silver, South Carolina

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13. Gibson, Althea - MSN Encarta
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14. Gibson, Althea - MSN Encarta Winkler Prins Encyclopedie
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