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Oscar Johnson

tennis player
Full name: Oscar Grant Johnson, Jr
Nickname: Jackie Robinson of Tennis
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Bio On July 4, 1948, he became the first Afro-American tennis player to win an integrated national championship, capturing the National Public Parks junior championship at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, he won it at age 17.
In 1953, he joined Gerald Alleyne as the fourth and fifth African-Americans - male or female - to play in the U.S. National Championships. Oscar played mixed doubles in the U.S. National Championships in 1953 with Althea Gibson reaching the Round 16.
He led his high school, Thomas Jefferson, to the Southern League title.
His coach was ex-USC football star Brice Taylor, who assembled a tennis team of athletes who never played before.
He was awarded by the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987 and inducted to the Black Tennis Hall of Fame in 2010.
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