Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

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.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2015]

[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

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.

Target Audience Note:

TV Parental Guidelines Rating: TV-PG +L (coarse or crude language)

Subjects:

Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003.

Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.

African American tennis players -- Biography.

African American women athletes -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographical television programs.

Sports television programs.

Educational television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.