Althea
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.
Release Date
November 14, 2014Runtime
84 minGenres
DocumentaryDirected by
Rex MillerLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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ALTHEA the Documentary, Official Trailer
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