Althea Contemporary Romance power and loneliness

power and loneliness

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Althea Contemporary Romance power and lonelinessThe 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