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00:29The American Girls game shows the concentration, power and well-poised balance of a top-class player.
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00:53America, the Wimbledon champion arrives home and New York offers one of its famous ticker tape welcomes to Althea Gibson.
00:59The first colored girl to win the top tennis crown, she learned to play in the back streets of Harlem.
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01:12No other black player would win at Wimbledon until Arthur Ashe took the men's singles in 1975.
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01:31In my day, it was for peanuts and for cups, for silverware and not the bread, shall I say.
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01:49In the crowd, they taunted her because she was the first Afro-American.
01:54All she saw was the ball and she won.
01:57So it didn't affect her because she was so focused.
02:02And that's what the kids today have to be focused on anything they want to do.
02:06Don't give up on it.
02:07One, two, three.
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02:14People have to understand how she persevered and what she means to our sport.
02:19But not just our sport, to all society, to everyone.
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