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Althea 2014 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, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.

Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Gnere Documentary
Production Company Icarus Films
Release Date 14 November 2014
84 mins