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Original – Tennis player Althea Gibson in 1956
Reason
Rather nice, free photo of the tennis player who broke the colour barrier. Since this was a photograph by a newspaper photographer, not high art, and hence we can presume it would have been intended to be cropped, I took the liberty of cleaning up the left edge a little more than I usually would to crop out that weird fringe-y pillar and deal with the distracting shadow.
Articles in which this image appears
Althea Gibson and like 10 others (currently under a file redirect until Commons Delinker runs)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Sport
Creator
Fred Palumbo (New York World-Telegram and The Sun); restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Althea Gibson in 1956 by Fred Palumbo (NYWTS).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:32, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]