Post & Courier: Q&A with Sally Jacobs
“Many Americans are unaware of Althea Gibson and think Arthur Ashe was the first Black player to win a grand slam. In fact, Althea was not only the first, she also won a total of 11 grand slams in her 8-year tennis career, five of them in singles….
But Althea wasn’t done. In 1964 she broke a second racial barrier when she became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association. She went on to cut a record, appear in a movie with John Wayne and serve as the New Jersey Athletic Commissioner, the first woman to do so. ”
Adam Parker, “Q&A with Sally Jacobs, author of ‘Althea,’ a biography of the trailblazing Black athlete,” Post and Courier, Aug 13, 2023.