A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.
Directed byRex Miller
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- November 14, 2014
Featuring
Cast & crew
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson
- Directed by
- Rex Miller
- Produced by
- Nancy Buirski
Elisabeth Haviland James
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