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In Memory of Althea Gibson August 25 1927 - September 28 2003

In the News

• 11-time Grand Slam Champ Broke Sport's Racial Barrier In '51 (The Day, New London CT: http://www.newlondonday.com/eng/web/newstand/re.aspx?reIDx=c77b5e72-a9a5-436e-8ef9-5e40bc33408d)
• U.S., Wimbledon champ paved the way for blacks(San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20030929-9999_1s29gibson.html)
• Facts about Althea Gibson (Minneapolis Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/stories/503/4124073.html)
• Barrier-breaking Althea Gibson dies at 76 (http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/6885515.htm)
• Pioneer broke the color line in both tennis and golf (Star-Ledger: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1064812390246790.xml)
• Tennis legend, Clarendon Co. native Althea Gibson dies (WISTV: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1460775&nav=0RaPIEy5)
• Tennis great Althea Gibson dies (Electronic Urban Report:http://www.eurweb.com/articles/headlines/09292003/headlines1147809292003.cfm)
• Sports pioneer Althea Gibson dies after lengthy illness (Agence France-Presse: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_394818,00070002.htm)
• Gibson remembered as competitive, generous (Associated Press, The State, South Carolina: http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/6884643.htm)
• Althea Gibson, who broke the color line on the Grand Slam tennis circuit . . . (Newsday: http://www.nynewsday.com/sports/tennis/nyc-althea0928,0,7944769.story?coll=nyc-sports-short-navigation)
• Reaction to the death of Althea Gibson (The Miami Herald: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/6885239.htm)

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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do
rather than what you are. ~ Althea Gibson

About Althea Gibson

• Althea Gibson web site (http://www.altheagibson.com/)
• Althea Gibson Foundation, Suite 608, 17 Academy Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102, 973-596-0333 (http://www.altheagibson.com/about.html)
• Who2's about Althea Gibson (http://www.who2.com/altheagibson.html)
• Althea Gibson broke barriers (By Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com)
• Sports Biographies: Althea Gibson (http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/gibsonalthea.shtml)
• July 6, 1957 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul06.html)
• Lesson Plan: Althea Gibson (http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4566.html)
• Althea Gibson Won Again! (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/gibson_1)
• Net results from Gibson's remarkable career sometimes lost in shuffle (http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/sports/special/barriers/gibson.html)
• About Althea Gibson (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/althea_gibson.html)

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