Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson (Jacobs Sally H.)(Pevná vazba)

The first full biography of Althea Gibson, the young woman from Harlem who broke the color barrier in tennis with her remarkable skill on the court. In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate the game of royalty: Althea Gibson. A street-savvy young woman from Harlem, Gibson was about as alien in that rarefied white world as an aspiring tennis champion could be. In her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair, Gibson drew stares from both sides of the color fence. But her astonishing skill on the court soon eclipsed all of that, as she eventually became one of the greatest tennis champions the United States has ever produced. Gibson had a stunning career: She won top honors at
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