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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/files/2015/06/mezzanine_822.jpg19201080Tennis champion Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the unlikely queen of the segregated tennis world in the 1950s. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (precursor of the U.S. Open) — a decade before Arthur Ashe.