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American Masters. Althea

American Masters. Althea

DVD 2015

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.

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African American women athletes Biography
Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003
Tennis players Biography
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ISBN:
9781627895101
1627895108
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital optical
video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
MPAA: TVPG
Other Title:
Althea [DVD]
Container of (work) American masters (Television program)
Notes:
Widescreen
Originally broadcast as a single episode of the television program American Masters on the PBS Network
Althea Gibson
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo
English dialogue; English subtitles
Control Number:
1573638
UPC:
841887026475
Other Authors:
Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003
PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster
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