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Althea

Althea

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 14, 2014

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Althea

Production Companies

Icarus Films

Director

Rex Miller

Description

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.