Good News in History, August 22
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- 76 years ago today, Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis, after US officials, bowing to pressure, invited the 23-year-old to play in the National Championships (now the US Open)
- Born in South Carolina to sharecropper parents who moved to Harlem when Althea was 6, their neighbors took up a collection to […] The post Good News in History, August 22 appeared first on Good News Network
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76 years ago today, Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis, after US officials, bowing to pressure, invited the 23-year-old to play in the National Championships (now the US Open). Born in South Carolina to sharecropper parents who moved to Harlem when Althea was 6, their neighbors took up a collection to […] The post Good News in History, August 22 appeared first on Good News Network.
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