Althea, a Rexpix Media Production in association with Thornapple Films and Augusta Films ; directed and produced by Rex Miller ; edited and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James ; produced by Nancy Buirski
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Althea, a Rexpix Media Production in association with Thornapple Films and Augusta Films ; directed and produced by Rex Miller ; edited and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James ; produced by Nancy Buirski
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TV Parental Guidelines Rating: TV-PG +L (coarse or crude language)
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Althea
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Originally broadcast Sept. 4, 2015 as an episode of the PBS television series: American Masters
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a Rexpix Media Production in association with Thornapple Films and Augusta Films ; directed and produced by Rex Miller ; edited and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James ; produced by Nancy Buirski
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90
Summary
Althea Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper's daughter, her family's migration to Harlem, her mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and her fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring the story into a much broader realm of African American history, transcending sports
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