Althea
A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson
Watch movie: Althea Released in (2014) The movie categorized in Documentary, Biography, History, Sport, with duration 84 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Rex Miller. 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.
Watch movie: Althea Released in (2014) The movie categorized in Documentary, Biography, History, Sport, with duration 84 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Rex Miller. 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.
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Sport
Actor: Althea Gibson
Director: Rex Miller
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Produced By: Icarus Films
Runtime: 84
Release: 2014
Rating: 7 out of 10
Language: English, en,
Views: 18
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Quality: DVD
