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Serena and Naomi owe a debt of gratitude to Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first Black woman to ever win a national tennis title in 1917. Like so many famous Black women of her generation, Slowe was so much more than her job title. Yes, she was a great athlete, but she was also an educator who became Howard University’s dean of women, and a champion of civil rights who helped found the nation’s first Greek-lettered sorority for Black women, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA).

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