Boston Globe: Sally H. Jacobs traces the arc of tennis star Althea Gibson, for whom fighting was a mode of survival

For decades, Althea Gibson’s fame was inescapable.…

But by her death, alone and nearly destitute, at the age of 76 in 2003, she had been eclipsed by newer stars as well as by later groundbreakers like Arthur Ashe. Even Sally H. Jacobs, a former Globe reporter and the author of the new “Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson,” hadn’t heard of her.
— Clea Simon, Boston Globe Correspondent
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