September 29, 2003
R.I.P. Althea Gibson
A native of South Carolina who cilmbed her way up from poverty to become the first African-American to ever win a title at Wimbledon. She died in East Orange, New Jersey over the weekend at 76.
Rachel Nichols of the Washington Post remembers.
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