Recently we've had two African American women who have dominated one part of the sport's world, women's tennis, and one African American man who has dominated Golf. The names of these people are Venus and Serena Williams and Tiger Woods. Back during the 18 and 1900s the United States were just simply overcoming or at least attempting to overcome slavery and makes blacks equal to everyone, white, Spanish, etc. With slavery brought the thought of blacks were less human than whites so they were thought less of, which made them had disadvantages. For example, in the text, it states, "Not that long ago, all three would have been banned from professional sports because of their color." This all came from the women who they all can thank with the…show more content… In New York, she moved to a town by the Name of Harlem and during this time they were going through a great depression which was harmful to working people and those in poverty and majority of the whole population. Instead of dwelling on the troublesome times around her, she had decided to find a love, "playing basketball and other sports with the boys in her neighborhood." as stated in the text. Not because there were not girls around but because she was amazing in what she did and that was all the help of her athletic genes in her bones. A few years later during the "summer of 1941, Althea won a paddle ball tournament in Harlem. One of the people who watched her play suggested that she should try her hand at tennis- so she did." As stated in the text, because of her sounding around her and what was going on it all lead of chain of events and why she was so important to her people. This is the reason why she played both sports. After that one tournament, Aletha started to take lessons and started to win tournaments and progress her tennis future. With her progression, she went to a place called the ATA or All-Black American Tennis Association and won ten straight games in a row yet she was yielded to not play in the all-white tennis association because of her…show more content… After many years of pushing on and on finally on August 28, of 1950 she was allowed to play in one All White Tennis even at forest hills in New York and was the first African-American to compete. Gladly she won her first tournament but lost her second to her opponent from England with the name of Barba Knapp. This loss didn't knock her down though, she help playing at her all black competitions training harder trying to get better while still accompanying some white ones. in 1955-59, "she traveled to Asia playing tennis on the Goodwill Tourn put on by teh U.S governemnt. Which sowed even though racial tensions between the people were high and cities and states, the top dog of the govenment still overlooked it all to see the bigger picture that african Amercians are no longer under whites but on the same level. She showed the strength of African Americans because she won 16 all white tennis matches for the "1956 session and even won the French Championship, defeating England's Angela Mortimer in the finals." As said in the text, with this win, she became not only a woman who won a major title in Singles tennis but the first African American Women to win any type to the title in professional
