Before Althea Gibson could play -- much less win -- major ... 25, 1927, in the small town of Silver, S.C. The family moved to Harlem in New York City when she was 3. Growing up there, Gibson ...

Gibson was born in 1927, to a family of sharecroppers in Silver ... often beat his five children with a power cord when they misbehaved. Althea never cried. Prone to wandering, she was often ...

Her family’s deep-rooted history with HBCUs ... her platform to uplift her community and honor trailblazers like Althea Gibson and the Williams sisters – Serena Williams and Venus Williams.