The August 25 Google “Doodle” (a name the company uses to
describe a specially modified front page logo) featured Althea Gibson, a 1953
alumna of FAMU. It paid tribute to what would have been her 87th birthday.
According to a TIME Magazine story on the Doodle, “Gibson,
who was born on Aug. 25, 1927, was the first black person to take the title at
Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals. The Harlem-raised Gibson was also the first
African-American named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 1957;
she won again in 1958.”
Gibson died in East Orange, New Jersey on September 28, 2003
at the age of 76.