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Island Girl, Unapologetically Pro-Choice, Staunch Resister 💙 @bluepolitico.bsky.social

Today in Black History: On Aug. 25, 1927, tennis legend Althea Gibson was born in Silver, SC. The daughter of sharecroppers, she rose from Harlem’s courts to win Grand Slams, shatter racial barriers in tennis, and later break ground as the first Black woman on the LPGA tour. #BlackHistory

aug 25, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1,604 349

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musicloverforever.bsky.social @musicloverforever.bsky.social

She was awesome. I played golf with her years ago in a charity outing.

aug 25, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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MsChiz @mschiz.bsky.social

Althea Gibson was a National Treasure and great role model for all girls.

aug 25, 2025, 2:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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Lu 💙 @luful.bsky.social

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

aug 25, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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greg60 @greg60.bsky.social

👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻👏🏿👏🏽👏🏼👏🏿👏🏾👍🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾💙💙💙

aug 25, 2025, 1:43 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lightning Will ⚡️ @lightningwill.bsky.social

She also was supported and mentored by a family in Wilmington, NC. We have a public tennis court complex named after her here!

aug 25, 2025, 1:43 pm • 4 0 • view
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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social

Also. Arthur Ashe. Won friends in the UK, winning Wimbledon with grace.

aug 25, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Island Girl, Unapologetically Pro-Choice, Staunch Resister 💙 @bluepolitico.bsky.social

Today would be Althea Gibson's birthday. That's why I posted it to honor her.

aug 25, 2025, 1:03 pm • 4 0 • view
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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social

Save before it's deleted.

aug 25, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Island Girl, Unapologetically Pro-Choice, Staunch Resister 💙 @bluepolitico.bsky.social

Saved before it's deleted what? Today would have been her birthday.

aug 25, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lisa Craig - Proceed in working trot @dqscribbler.bsky.social

I think they mean, "before her incredible achievements are erased and melted down by the current racist/fascist regime in their history purges."

aug 25, 2025, 1:33 pm • 7 0 • view
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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social

Yes.

aug 25, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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1tonytony.bsky.social @1tonytony.bsky.social

younguns Jim Crow wasn't easy, please never ever give up, keep Sober, STEM Fundamentals are the answer, Work Hard Study Harder Excell AllHandsOnDeck

aug 25, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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dwheron.bsky.social @dwheron.bsky.social

Great history lesson for young girls and all of us.

aug 25, 2025, 1:02 pm • 4 0 • view
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John Armistead @jarmistead.bsky.social

Althea Gibson...what a wonderful athlete, tough competitor and fighter to shatter racial barriers in tennis!!! 👍❤️

aug 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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David J. Snyder @fractalpast9.bsky.social

One of her Wimbledon trophies, in storage at the Smithsonian Museum of American History:

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aug 25, 2025, 1:11 pm • 9 0 • view
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diane-liberal-one.bsky.social @diane-liberal-one.bsky.social

In storage? It should be on display.Of course now with Trump—?

aug 25, 2025, 3:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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kabbman.bsky.social @kabbman.bsky.social

You can't shatter steel. She was a beacon but any black person who excels does so against a backdrop of insecure whites who do everything to ensure they don't achieve high status somewhere in historical books.

aug 25, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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JaxBBax @jaxbbax.bsky.social

BLACK HISTORY! LOVE IT!!

aug 25, 2025, 3:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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chandler-michele.bsky.social @chandler-michele.bsky.social

This is something we should be taught about!

aug 26, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Real Arnold Ziffel @direwolf54.bsky.social

Wow, didn't know this Thanks for posting

aug 25, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Denese @denese12.bsky.social

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

aug 25, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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johnnyphx.bsky.social @johnnyphx.bsky.social

And she had asthma! I remember her commercials.

aug 25, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @bianoc.bsky.social

web.archive.org/web/20250826... archive link for those in UK (where history .com blocks this Black History by automatic redirect to a .co.uk site with no page on Althea Gibson.) #Wimbledon #UK #BlackHistory

aug 26, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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chuckmoffat.bsky.social @chuckmoffat.bsky.social

Amazing life story.

aug 25, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lisa Craig - Proceed in working trot @dqscribbler.bsky.social

AND on top of all that she was, she helped professionalize tennis, so players could be paid and not be the brilliant, broke amusement for rich people to gloat over.

aug 25, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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joeybee12.bsky.social @joeybee12.bsky.social

I didnt know she played golf also

aug 25, 2025, 12:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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bkhudso1943.bsky.social @bkhudso1943.bsky.social

She was magnificent!

aug 25, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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jlm617.bsky.social @jlm617.bsky.social

Of course she did…

aug 25, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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jlm617.bsky.social @jlm617.bsky.social

Cool…

aug 25, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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grace10101.bsky.social @grace10101.bsky.social

incredible athlete

aug 25, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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dunguib.bsky.social @dunguib.bsky.social

Admiration…✅✅✅

aug 25, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view