Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson

From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first
African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.

In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson (1927-2...