Althea Gibson
Awards And Accomplishments
| 1944-45 | American Tennis Association (ATA) junior champion |
| 1947-56 | ATA singles champion |
| 1948-50, 1952-55 | ATA mixed doubles champion |
| 1949 | Eastern Indoor Championships quarter-finalist and first black to play in a USLTA-sanctioned event |
| 1956 | French Open singles and doubles champion; Wimbledon doubles champion |
| 1957 | U.S. Clay Court singles and doubles champion; Australian doubles champion; Wimbledon singles and doubles champion; U.S. singles and mixed doubles champion; U.S. Wightman Cup team member |
| 1957-58 | Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year |
| 1958 | Wimbledon singles and doubles champion; U.S. singles champion; U.S. Wightman Cup member |
| 1959 | Pan American Games singles gold medalist |
| 1964 | First black to earn a Ladies Professional Golf Association card |
| 1971 | Inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 1980 | Inducted into International Women's Sports Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | First female recipient of NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award |
| 2002 | Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame |
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