Althea Contemporary Romance Alabama Department of Education Alabama

Alabama Department of Education Alabama Children's Choice Camellia Award 4-5 Nonfiction Nominee (2022-2023)

of the crushed

” —Annie Hartnett

"This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled

Althea Contemporary Romance Alabama Department of Education AlabamaThe biography of Althea Gibson, the street savvy young woman from Harlem who broke the color barrier in tennis with her remarkable skill on the court. In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate "the game of kings": Althea Gibson. A street savvy young woman from