Althea Gibson And Barbara C. Jord An Analysis

Dreams are there to make the illusion of the impossible, you must always strive to do the impossible. Two people have shown that it is possible to achieve the impossible, and those two people are Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan, and those two people had done their absolute best to make sure that they make it, and to make sure they make they succeed in life. In the article Althea Gibson and Barbara C. Jordan, both written by Frank Lafe They were both faced with obstacles that didn't want them to succeed, they had dreams that had seemed impossible for them to be able to achieve at that time. Both of them had different environments that affected their future, the environments around people affect the person too. All of those describe the lives

Even though the obstacles might not be the same exact thing, everyone has at least dealt with obstacles once in their lifetime, or are currently trying to deal with it. Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan both had a similar obstacle, and a different ones, the similar one was a huge part back then. Rights of black women back then were very slim, but even then, Gibson and Jordan had continued to go on and reach their dream. An example would be in the article Althea Gibson written by Frank Lafe, where Gibson was not allowed to go to certain parts of tennis since at the time the sport was dominated by white people and they had segregated the sport, but Gibson still went on to become a professional player. Similar to Gibson, Jordan had been able to attend segregated schools, but she had continued to go to high school, and then a black lawyer there had inspired her, and she went on to going to a segregated college, but even then she had joined a debate team and had tied with Harvard's team. She went on to Boston University's law school (Barbara Jordan Frank Lafe) and graduate, even when her education was limited, she had continued to be successful with her