In 1956, Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a Grand Slam title when she took the French Championships.
When Althea Gibson was born in the South Carolina town of Silver in 1927, her birth certificate made no sense whatsoever. Chalk it up to an overexcited family member or an exhausted midwife; both her name and gender were inaccurately recorded.
“More than once, when she couldn’t bear to go back to their cramped third-floor apartment and endure another one of his beatings, she passed the night dozing on a subway car, riding the train alone for the entire night, up and down the length of the city,” writes Jacobs. When she left school at 13, Gibson spent several years working all manner of jobs; counter girl at Chock Full o’ Nuts, elevator operator, laborer at a dress factory and even cleaning the guts out of chickens at a butcher shop. But she was increasingly intrigued by tennis.
By 1950, her achievements were such that the United States Tennis Association had little option but to invite her to play in the US National Championships at Forest Hills in Queens. For all her titles, Gibson still had to contend with racist abuse. Often, she was denied access to the country clubs’ locker rooms and had to change in her car. Hotels refused to honor her reservations.The following year, she won at Wimbledon and the US Nationals before repeating the feat in 1958.
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