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On that sweltering day, Queen Elizabeth II presented trophies to Althea and her opponent, Darlene Hard. Photo: Associated Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/19ace9c7-1756-4ce9-ab9e-fd56a7cd57b1/althea-gibson-ticker-tape-parade-nyc-1957.jpg Althea Althea is feted by 100,000 New Yorkers attending a ticker-tape parade up Broadway on July 11, 1957. She was the second African American to receive such a tribute after Jesse Owens and the first woman of color to do so. Photo: Associated Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/4d73e8fa-91a7-49b9-ad4a-38412ad8579b/althea-gibson-swarmed-by-children-harlem-1957-carl-t-gossett-jr.jpg Althea Althea is swarmed by children in her Harlem neighborhood on her return from Wimbledon in 1957. Photo: Carl T. Gossett Jr., The New York Times: Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/ab1663f9-a584-45b4-8951-834476238ccc/althea-gibson-poster-by-t-green-from-harlem-after-wimbledon-1957.jpg Althea This poster was presented to Althea after she won the women’s singles at Wimbledon for the first time in 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/f1cc8825-e6bd-4ce3-a51b-638fb292670f/althea-gibson-defeating-darlene-hard-US-national-championships-1958-allyn-baum.jpg Althea On the brink of defeating Darlene Hard at the US National Championships in New York, Sept. 7, 1958. Photo: Allyn Baum, The New York Times: Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/fc16f7bf-32ab-41b7-bb56-322df473dbe9/althea-gibson-althea-singsdot-records-1958-cecil-williams.jpg Althea The record “Althea Gibson Sings” was released by Dot Records in 1958. It did not do well. Photo: Cecil Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/98e0ba59-57f1-47ca-be9e-b78429a51a2e/althea-gibson-ward-bakery-tip-top-bread-campaign.jpg Althea The Ward Baking Company hired Althea to promote its Tip Top bread and serve as a community relations representative in 1960. The job lasted five years. The New York Amsterdam News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/b033bab1-2507-4804-b158-8e68eb025227/althea-gibson-jackie-robinson-golf-1962-north-south-tournament-ap.jpg Althea Record-breaking athletes, Althea Gibson and Jackie Robinson, play in the 1962 North-South Tournament in Miami Springs. Althea would go on to be the first Black member of the LPGA. Photo: Associated Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/70119cba-cd2d-447b-96bc-de0d61955bac/althea-gibson-pleasant-valley-country-club-1966-photo-bill-chaplis-ap.jpg Althea Lining up a putt at the Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, in 1966. Photo: Bill Chaplis, Associated Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6483e6b5d900e80ca82732e7/895775aa-1fda-42bb-bc10-dae8844b34b0/Bust-of-Althea-Gibson-Billie-Jean-King-National-Tennis-Center-Photo-Jeenah-Moon.jpg Althea More than fifteen years after she died, a sculpture of Althea was installed at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens in 2019. 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