Althea
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USUnited States
Language
English
Spoken
English
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Icarus Films
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Althea U

Released Documentary
14 Nov, 2014 1h 24min
 

Althea U

Released Documentary
14 Nov, 2014 1h 24min
 

Directed by Rex Miller

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,... see more

Directed by Rex Miller

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,... see more
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