Greenbelt Recreation - March is National Women's History Month. Spotlight: Althea Gibson Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the
Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American male tennis player ranked No. 1 in the U.S.
Althea Gibson | Biography, Titles, & Facts | Britannica
July 6, 1957 – Althea Gibson Becomes the First African American to win Wimbledon | Rhapsody in Books Weblog
First Black tennis player to win a major, Althea Gibson
How Baltimore came to host the first American Tennis Association National Championships