Peters, Roumania (1917–2003)
Peters, Roumania (1917–2003)
African-American tennis player. Name variations: Matilda Roumania Peters Walker. Born Matilda Roumania Peters, July 21, 1917, in Washington, DC; died May 16, 2003, in Maryland; sister of Margaret Peters (tennis player); graduate of Tuskegee Institute, 1941; New York University, MA in physical education; m. James Walker (mathematics professor), c. 1957 (died 1992); children: daughter and son.
One of America's top-ranked tennis players at a time when segregation kept her off the world's mainstream courts, won the national title of the American Tennis Association (ATA, 1944 and 1946), the nation's oldest black organization; with sister, won 14 ATA doubles titles; taught at Howard University and in DC public schools.
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