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Besiana Bojka

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Althea Gibson was born on August 27,1927.She passed out on September 28,2003. Althea was born in Silver South Carolina.She was raised in Harlem,New York City.Althea was the daughter of sharecroppers. Her and her family were on a welfare.She ran away from home at times.She had trouble in school.During childhood she started to play golf,basketball,and table tennis.But she loved table tennis the most.She played table tennis in a place where it was sponsered by the" Police Athletic League".She also played table tennis at the "New York City Department of Parks and  Recreation".Althea enjoyed coming to these places.She went there basically to have fun.

When Althea got older she moved to Willmington,North Carolina in 1946 for tennis training.At the age of 20,she won the first of 10 consecutive national championships.It was runned by the "American Tennis Association".This was the, then- govering body for black tournaments. She was forced to play what was basically a segregated sport.When Althea was 23 she had the oppurtunity to participate in the 1950 U.S Championships after Alice Marble had written a editorial for July 1 ,1950. Alice did this for the "Edition of the Tennis Lawn Magazine".Alice said "Althea is over a cunnigly wrought barrel,and I can  only hope to loosen one of its staves with one lone opinion".Alice thought that if ladies and gentleman,it`s time we started acting a little more like gentle people.Gibson continued doing good in tennis.Later on, she gradueted from Florida A&M Unive- rsity and won a scholarship of basketball and tennis.She moved to Jefferson City Missouri,and worked as a athletic instructor at Lincoln University.

Althea Gibson is not alive right now.Althea died on September 28,2003.Althea died in East Orange NJ.She died because she respiratory failure and was interred in the Rosedale Cemetry in Orange New Jersey.On the opening night of the 2007 U.S Open the 50th anniversary of Gibsons victory at the U.S Championships in 1957 (now the U.S Open) Althea was inducted into the U.S Court of Championships.Althea now reminds us of a professional tennis player who lived before.She had a great talent inside and outside of herself.