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Playing to win how Althea Gibson broke barriers and changed tennis forever

Growing up in Harlem, Althea Gibson was heading down the wrong path until she found her calling. She went on to become the first African American women to be ranked as the number one woman tennis player in the world.

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Main Author:	Deans, Karen (Author)
Other Authors:	Brown, Elbrite (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Holiday House, [2021]
Subjects:	Gibson, Althea, > 1927-2003 > Juvenile nonfiction. Tennis players > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. African American women tennis players > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Biographies > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Growing up in Harlem, Althea Gibson was heading down the wrong path until she found her calling. She went on to become the first African American women to be ranked as the number one woman tennis player in the world.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780823448531 0823448533
Author Notes:	Karen Deans has worked as a journalist and is also a muralist, illustrator, writer, and entrepreneur. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and three children. Surprised when she was unable to find biographies of many of the women she admired to share with her daughter, she decided to write her own. Her other books include Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm . Elbrite Brown is an illustrator, artist, and high school art teacher. His illustrations for My Family Plays Music by Judy Cox won him a Coretta Scott King / John Septoe Award for New Talent. More than anything else, Elbrite looks at art as a way for him to inspire others. While doing research on Althea Gibson, he went to tennis matches and studied photographs and videos of the great star in action. He came to feel that Althea Gibson was as graceful as a ballerina and tried to capture just the right sense of movement in this book.