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The match: Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton : how two outsiders--one Black, the other Jewish--forged a friendship and made sports history
The match: Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton : how two outsiders--one Black, the other Jewish--forged a friendship and made sports history
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Schoenfeld, Bruce
Publisher
Amistad
Publication Date
c2004
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Acknowledgments
Prologue: Angela
1. Althea
2. "Put Her in Tournaments"
3. Help from Her Friends
4. Breaking Through
5. From Forest Hills to Wimbledon
6. Angela Goes to Hollywood
7. Patterned Dresses and Pattern Tennis
8. She Didn't Have a Name
9. Rendezvous in Asia
10. Doubles Partners
11. Making History
12. Flatmates
13. Wimbledon
14. Angela's Ashes
15. A Black from Harlem, a Jew from North London
16. Althea's Championship Seasons
17. Second Careers
18. Together Again
Epilogue: Althea
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Buxton, Angela
Buxton, Angela, 1934
Gibson, Althea
Gibson, Althea, 1927
Tennis players
Tennis players -- Great Britain -- Biography
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography
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9780060526528
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