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03264aim a2200445 i 4500 001 4E193A4A7A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231103010033 006 m dq h 007 cs nzannnauuuu 007 sz zunznnnzneu 008 230703r2023uuuuohunnnn q b n eng d 020 $a 1250344727 020 $a 9781250344724 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Jacobs, Sally H., $d 1957- $e author. 245 10 $a Althea : $b the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson / $c Sally H. Jacobs. 264 1 $a Solon, Ohio : $b Playaway Products, LLC, $c [2023] 300 $a 1 audio media player : $b digital, HD audio ; $c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. 500 $a Title supplied by publisher. 500 $a Release date supplied by publisher. 500 $a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. 500 $a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. 500 $a Previously released by Macmillan Audio. 511 0 $a Read by Chante McCormick. 520 $a The biography of Althea Gibson, the street savvy young woman from Harlem who broke the color barrier in tennis with her remarkable skill on the court. In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate "the game of kings": Althea Gibson. A street-savvy young woman from Harlem, Gibson was about as alien in that rarefied white world as an aspiring tennis champion could be. In her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair, Gibson drew stares from both sides of the color fence. But her astonishing skill on the court soon eclipsed all of that, as she eventually became one of the greatest tennis champions the United States has ever produced. Gibson had a stunning career: She won top honors at Wimbledon and Forest Hills time and time again. As her star rose, the underestimated high school dropout shook hands with the Queen of England, was driven up Broadway in a snowstorm of ticker tape, was on the front of Time and Sports Illustrated--the first Black woman to appear on the covers of both magazines--and was named the number one female tennis player in the world. In Althea, prize-winning former Boston Globe reporter Sally H. Jacobs tells the heart-rending story of this pioneer. This first full biography of a remarkable woman reminds the world that Althea Gibson was a trailblazer, a champion, and one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century. 521 $a Adult. 600 10 $a Gibson, Althea, $d 1927-2003. 650 0 $a African American women tenis players $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women tennis players $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Racism in sports $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Discrimination in sports $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a McCormick, Chante, $e narrator. 710 2 $a Playaway Digital Audio, $e issuing body. 710 2 $a Playaway Products, LLC, $e issuing body. 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231103010213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E193A4A7A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search