Release Date

14 Nov, 2014

Runtime

01:24: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Althea

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Actors

Crew

David Majzlin

Billie Jean King

Nancy Buirski

Elisabeth Haviland James

John Amos

Rex Miller

David Majzlin

Bill Ackman

Elisabeth Haviland James

Rex Miller

Rex Miller