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| Let Us Remember Alice Marble, the Catalyst for Althea Gibson to Break the Color Barrier |
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| Friday, 31 August 2007 | |
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Marble was the first to publicly address the sport's segregation
practices and challenge the establishment. She exhorted, "If tennis
is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little
more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites..." Read more at HuffingtonPost.com
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