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First African American to win Wimbledon?
Althea Gibson
Who was the first African American female athelete?
Tennis star Althea Gibson won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 1957 and 1958.
Who was the first African American tennis player to win Wimbledon?
Arthur Ashe
Who was the first African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon?
Althea Gibson in 1957.
Who was the first black African American to win a single title at Wimbledon?
Arthur Ashe
Who was the first African male to win the Wimbledon?
Arthur Ashe is an African American and the first and only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. He is also the only black man to win the singles title at the US Open and the Australian Open.
Who was the first African American man to win the Wimbledon?
Arthur Ashe in 1975.
What was unique about Arthur Ashe's Wimbledon Singles victory in 1975?
He became the First African-American to win.
Who was the first African American female athlete of all time?
The first to achieve great notoriety was Althea Gibson, who was the first black woman to win Wimbledon singles title (in 1957 and 1958) and to qualify for the LPGA tour (in 1963).
Who was the first black woman to win the Women's Singles Championship at Wimbledon?
Althea Gibson, in 1957. She was also the first black woman to win the U.S. Open.
Who was the first African American female poet?
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
Who was the first female African-American veterinarian?
The first African-American female veterinarian in the United States was Dr. Alfreda J Webb; she graduated from Tuskegee University in 1949.
