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Virginia home played role in desegregating tennis

By CARRIE SIDENER and The News & Advance - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 1957, file photo, Althea Gibson smiles as she holds her trophies she won by capturing the National women's singles tennis championship at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y. Gibson won an amazing 11 Grand Slam titles in three years from 1956-58, including the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open. On Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, the USTA will unveil a statue in her honor at the U.S. Open. (AP Photo, File)

Tennis champ, trailblazer Althea Gibson honored at US Open

By MELISSA MURPHY - Associated Press

Althea Gibson competes at Wimbledon in England in 1956. She was among the more than a million black people who weren't counted in the 1940 census. The records were released April 2. (Associated Press)

Census records show undercount of blacks in 1940

By Cristian Salazar - Associated Press