Althea Gibson was a tennis pioneer; in the 1950s, she was the first black player to win a major championship. Yet Gibson, often subjected to bigotry & exclusion in a sport that lacked diversity, "got the last laugh" on Monday. https://cbsn.ws/2Hr9wJd | CBS Evening News
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