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Althea

Label
Althea
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: TVPG
Main title
Althea
Oclc number
922939121
Runtime
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, 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
Technique
live action
Classification
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