Word: althea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serena Williams was transformed. On Saturday evening in New York City, she became the first African American to win a tennis Grand Slam singles title since Arthur Ashe won Wimbledon in 1975, and the first African-American woman to win the U.S. Open since Althea Gibson in 1958. As a historymaker, Serena transfigured her family as well. She, her sister Venus and their father Richard were no longer the loudest mouths on the tennis circuit. She had shown the world that her father was not just some voice crying in the wilderness but a true prophet. He had long predicted...
...interview, Althea P. Scott '98--a two-year mentor in the summer program and a friend of Eric's--recalled his ability to reach out to the six-and seven- year-olds who participate in the summer program...
...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...
...streets of East Orange, no one knows where Gibson lives. "Althea who?" is a common response. "You mean the great track star?" says one man. In city hall, behind the counter at the Department of Property and Taxation, the clerk recognizes her name ("Oh, we know exactly who she is") but says, "Are you sure she hasn't passed? I could have sworn I heard she passed...
...missing among the living champions gathered for the extravaganza. Andre Agassi's supposed snub of the opening ceremony was much easier to headline. But Gibson's absence was heart-wrenching. The new stadium was named for a man who broke race barriers in the '60s and '70s. Althea Gibson broke race barriers in the '50s: she was the first black person to win the French Open, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. And on the day the new stadium opened, she turned...