“We came together and beat everybody”: When tennis clubs and tournaments excluded black and Jewish women, a pair teamed up at Wimbledon for a championship
The players battling this week on the manicured grass courts of Wimbledon are surrounded by the history of the world’s oldest tennis tournament. Rarely remembered, however, is a prejudice-defying moment in 1956. That’s when Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton, an African-American and a British Jew, teamed up to win the women’s doubles championship.
To reach that point, both members of the unlikely duo had to overcome the deep institutional discrimination that then marked their sport, in contrast to today’s diversity in the top...
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