MISGUIDED MAGAZINE SPRING 2020
Misguided Magazine is a hybrid magazine for today's millennial generation, and everyone interested in good reading. Misguided Magazine not only includes life enriching articles, but also enthralling short stories, arousing poems, and much more.
Misguided Magazine is a hybrid magazine for today's millennial generation, and everyone interested in good reading. Misguided Magazine not only includes life enriching articles, but also enthralling short stories, arousing poems, and much more.
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ALTHEA GIBSON
Althea Neale Gibson was an African American tennis player and professional golfer, who dominated women’s
tennis competition in the late 1950s. She was one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of
international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title. She was the first
black player to win the French (1956), Wimbledon (1957–58), and U.S. Open (1957–58) singles championships.
in 1957 Gibson was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, becoming the first African
American to receive the honor; she also won the award the following year. Gibson took up professional golf in
1964 and was the first African American member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. In 1971 she was
elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Althea-Gibson
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