by Michele Genthon | Sep 9, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Most First Women To. . .help those who follow them, but some women fight battles that improve whole classes of women. Billie Jean King was a flagbearer for all girls who love athletics. Billie Jean King’s tennis career spans the decades of the 1960’s and...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 5, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Althea Gibson wasn’t fond of school and thought nothing of skipping classes; but she was dedicated to tennis, even though her family had to wait until dark to find practice time, after all the white people had left the court,. That practice in the semi-dark was a...
