When Althea Gibson was born in the South Carolina town of Silver in 1927, her birth certificate made no sense whatsoever. Chalk it up to an overexcited family member or an exhausted midwife ...

Bill Tilden was from a wealthy family in Philadelphia. In 1927, when Althea Gibson was born, Harlem was in the midst of what would come to be called The Harlem Renaissance. That ended with the ...

Before Althea Gibson could play ... Women's Sports Hall of Fame. Gibson was born Aug. 25, 1927, in the small town of Silver, S.C. The family moved to Harlem in New York City when she was ...

Althea Gibson photographed ... but she helped to break that down.” Gibson, who died in 2003, was born in South Carolina in 1927, but moved with her family to Harlem, New York, at a young age.