Althea
“A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson”
2014•1h 24m•7.0•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Rex Miller
Languages
English
Studio
Icarus Films
Cast
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson
Production
Company
Icarus Films
Producer
Nancy Buirski
Producer
Elisabeth Haviland James
Producer
Rex Miller
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