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Ashley Brown is the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. The Wall Street Journal selected Serving Herself for “Five Best: Books on Women in Tennis.” The Atlantic featured the biography in “Seven Books that Will Change How You Watch the Olympics.” Her writing has been published in the Journal of Sport History, the Journal of African American History, the Journal of American History, and The Washington Post, as well as at History.com.
Years after breaking the color barriers that surrounded baseball and tennis, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson changed yet another sport.
