Gibson was raised at 135 West 143rd Street between Lenox and Seventh Avenues, now Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard respectively. It is where she discovered her love for tennis.
“It is imperative that we keep her name alive,” said Katrina Adams, former president and CEO of the U.S. Tennis Association, at the ceremony. “It’s the next generation that needs to know that before Coco , Venus , Serena , Chanda , me, Lori , Zina and Leslie , was Althea,” said Adams, also a former player.
Althea Neale Gibson was born in Clarendon County, South Carolina and moved to Harlem with her family in 1930 during the Great Migration. She passed away in East Orange, New Jersey in 2003 at the age of 76.
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