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Althea Gibson
Tennis star Althea Gibson won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958.
Arthur Ashe
Althea Gibson in 1957.
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe is an African American and the first and only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. He is also the only black man to win the singles title at the US Open and the Australian Open.
Arthur Ashe in 1975.
He became the First African-American to win.
The first to achieve great notoriety was Althea Gibson, who was the first black woman to win Wimbledon singles title (in 1957 and 1958) and to qualify for the LPGA tour (in 1963).
Althea Gibson, in 1957. She was also the first black woman to win the U.S. Open.
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut. She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.