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Tennis and the Cold War

With Americans and Communists each attempting to exert influence on the Third World, the cold war was heating up. In an effort to win the trust and respect of the Third World governments, the State Department hit upon the idea of sending American athletes on goodwill tours abroad to display U.S. athletic excellence and spread the message of democracy. In 1955 the State Department found in Althea Gibson the perfect ambassador-athlete. Racial tensions in the United States had fed the Soviet propaganda machine, and U.S. government officials were.....

America 1950-1959: Sports article

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