Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in- and is the county seat of- New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476; according to the 2010 Census it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the principal city of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that includes New Hanover and Pender counties in southeastern North Carolina, which has a population of 263,429 as of the 2012 Census Estimate.
Wilmington was settled by European Americans along the Cape Fear River. Its historic downtown has a one-mile-long Riverwalk, developed as a tourist attraction. It is minutes away from nearby beaches. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Wilmington, North Carolina, as one of its 2008 Dozen Distinctive Destinations. City residents live between the river and the ocean, with four nearby beach communities: Fort Fisher, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach, all within half-hour drives from downtown Wilmington.
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Althea Gibson
00:01:49 1 Early life and education
00:04:10 2 Amateur career
00:09:06 3 Professional career
00:13:36 4 Post-retirement
00:16:40 5 Legacy
00:22:35 6 Grand Slam finals
00:22:44 6.1 Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups)
00:23:01 6.2 Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups)
00:23:18 6.3 Mixed doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)
00:23:29 7 Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
00:23:41 8 See also
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Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first Black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships). The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in 1958, and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. She is one of the greatest players who ever lived, said Bob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams. Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters. In the early 1960s she also became the first Black player to compete on the women's professional golf tour.
At a time when racism and prejudice were widespread in sports and in society, Gibson was often compared to Jackie Robinson. Her road to success was a challenging one, said Billie Jean King, but I never saw her back down. To anyone, she was an inspiration, because of what she was able to do at a time when it was enormously difficult to play tennis at all if you were Black, said former New York City Mayor David Dinkins. I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps, wrote Venus Williams. Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her legacy will live on.