"Suddenly it dawned on me that my triumphs had not destroyed the racial barriers once and for all, as I had—perhaps naively—hoped. Or if I did destroy them, they had been erected behind me again."
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African AmericansTennis players from the United StatesWomen born in the 1920sSports in the United States
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So Much to Live For, page 76, by Althea Gibson and Richard Curtis, Putnam (1968)
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