Hubert A. Eaton

Biography

Hubert Arthur Eaton (1916–1991) was an American physician, civil rights activist, and tennis player in North Carolina. The son of a Winston-Salem physician, Eaton attended Johnson C. Smith University on a tennis scholarship after winning the 1933 national junior championship of the American Tennis Association (ATA), the African-American counterpart to the United States Tennis Association. He would go on to win the ATA national doubles championship, and served as the coach and mentor of Althea Gibson, the first black Wimbledon champion.

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