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Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam event (the French Open).
Althea Gibson won the title in 1957, the first black tennis player to do so, ... and created a first in 2011, when she became the first player, male or female, ...
This is a list of female tennis players who meet one or more of the following criteria: Singles: Officially ranked among the top 25 by the Women's Tennis Association (since 1975) Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. Wallis Myers) before 1975; Reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament; Reached the finals of or won the year ...
First African-American man to win a Grand Slam tennis event: Arthur Ashe (See also: Althea Gibson, 1956; Serena Williams, 2003) First African American to start at quarterback in the modern era of professional football: Marlin Briscoe (Denver Broncos, AFL) First African-American coach to win NBA Championship: Bill Russell
First African-American (and Asian-American) and first female to serve as Acting President of the United States: Kamala Harris First African-American Democratic U.S. senator to represent a former Confederate state in the United States Senate: Raphael Warnock , elected in Georgia.
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In 1917, Slowe won the American Tennis Association's first tournament. She was the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. [13] In 1922, Howard University selected Lucy Slowe as its first Dean of Women. Slowe was the first African-American female to serve in that position at any university in the United States. [10]
Ora Belle Washington (c. 1899 – December 21, 1971) was an American athlete from the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Washington excelled in both tennis and basketball, and she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.