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Transcript: Profile: Career of Althea Gibson, who died at age 76
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STEVE INSKEEP
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
09-28-2003
Profile: Career of Althea Gibson, who died at age 76
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Steve Inskeep.
As we've been reporting today, the athlete who broke the color barrier in tennis has died. Althea Gibson was the first black woman to win Wimbledon in US national titles. She died at the age of 76 after a long illness. From member station WSHU, Tandaleya Wilder reports.
TANDALEYA WILDER reporting:
For Althea Gibson, the journey to center court at Wimbledon was not easy. She was born in 1927 in the small town of Silver(ph), South Carolina. Her family moved to ...