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Althea Gibson: Breaking Barriers with a tennis racket. (Overcoming…
Althea Gibson: Breaking Barriers with a tennis racket.
Overcoming Personal Barriers
Being in Debt while Playing Tennis
Most tennis players at that time were rich
They had better training facilities
Althea was put at a serious disadvantage
Careers after Tennis
Getting into USLTA and WTA Barrier
Alice Marble Interaction
Letters Each Wrote to Each Other
Tennis in her Childhood
Winning Matches on the WTA circuit Barrier
Wimbledon of 1957
Booed Every Match
Nobody saw her as something special
Didn't have good training facilities
First Career Win
Lack of Crowd Support
Getting Awards
First Black International Tennis Hall of Fame
International Women's Sports Hall of Fame
First black women to win NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award
National Womens Hall of Fame
Historical Context
Post-Slavery, Segregration in America
MLK JR.
Unfair rights for Blacks
Segregation in Sports
2 associations for Blacks and Whites
Whites had more Rights in Sports and more competition
Segregation in Tennis
WTA and USLTA was for whites
ATA was for Blacks
USLTA was national while WTA was international
Long Term Impact
Many more Black Athletes was play their dream Sport
Serena/Venus/Lebron/Tiger Woods
Statue and Plaque at US Open made for people to remember her
Short Term Impact
Tried to teach Children to "follow their dreams", and "to stand up to the wrong side"
Mostly, she had to fight the crowd becuase they didn't want to see a black women do well in tennis
Tried teaching adults and children a little bit of tennis to get
crowds to her side
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