arthur ashe
My idol, Serena Williams was the first black woman to win a major tennis championship.
Althea Gibson, in 1957. She was also the first black woman to win the U.S. Open.
Who was the second black player to play in the modern major leagues and the first to do so in the American League?
Andy roddick
There was no African American champion at the 1956 French Open.
He went to skool somewhere
tennis
He was remembered for the first African American man to win a major men's singles tennis tournament and an equal rights speaker
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Yes, David Harris was the first African American to fly for a major airline. In 1964, he started his career with American Airlines.
Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player who became the first black player in the major league of baseball
Tennis was first played by Major Walter C. Wingfeild