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21/12/2014

Wimbledon Pioneers

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The women's doubles partnership who broke new ground for Jewish and Black players

The women's doubles partnership who broke new ground for Jewish and Black players in 1956.

In the 1950s, Angela Buxton and Althea Gibson formed a unique partnership in women's doubles. As a British Jew and an African-American respectively, both women had faced prejudice in their home countries, but in 1956 they pulled off a stunning win at Wimbledon. Angela Buxton talks to David Whitty.

(Photo: Angela Buxton and Althea Gibson with their Wimbledon trophy. Credit: Getty Images).

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