Althea / edited and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James ; produced by Nancy Buirski ; directed and produced by Rex Miller ; a REXPIX Media production in association with Thornapple Films and Augusta Films.
Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. A sharecropper's daughter, Gibson's family migrate north to Harlem in the 1930s, when fame that th...
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| Corporate Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[Brooklyn, New York] :
[Distributed by] Icarus Films,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. A sharecropper's daughter, Gibson's family migrate north to Harlem in the 1930s, when fame that thrust her into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement. This films gives this elite athlete the attention she so richly deserves as uncompromising and courageous trailblazer and American pioneer. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Originally produced by: REXPIX Media, ©2014. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (84 min.)) |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographer, Rex Miller ; original score by David Majzlin. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed November 2, 2015). |