“Use whatever winning sports analogy you want to describe this smashing bio of Althea Gibson… Sally H. Jacobs serves up a damning commentary on how the economic structure and inherent racism of competitive tennis in the 1950s and 1960s prevented Althea from being a household name like the Williams sisters, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Coco Graff or any other stars of the court you know now.”
“Gibson was overlooked — worse, dismissed. What this book also makes clear is that she didn’t want to be an ambassador for her race; she just wanted to play tennis. Hopefully, this justifiably detailed biography will bring her the credit she most richly deserves.”
— Kelly Barth, the Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) Source
“An important biography of the groundbreaking tennis champion and legend, Althea Gibson… This is a book that belongs not only with other sports biographies but on the U.S. history bookshelves as well.”