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    • Title:Althea / edited and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James ; produced by Nancy Buirski ; directed and produced by Rex Miller ; a REXPIX Media production in association with Thornapple Films and Augusta Films.
    • Publication:[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
    • Physical Description:1 streaming video file (84 min.) : digital, sound, color with black & white sequences
    • Links:Streaming video

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    • Notes:Originally produced by: REXPIX Media, ©2014.
      Title from title frames.
      Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed November 2, 2015).
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Summary:Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. A sharecropper's daughter, Gibson's family migrate north to Harlem in the 1930s, when fame that thrust her into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement. This films gives this elite athlete the attention she so richly deserves as uncompromising and courageous trailblazer and American pioneer.
    • Variant and related titles:Docuseek2.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Credits:Cinematographer, Rex Miller ; original score by David Majzlin.
    • System details note:System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
    • Subjects:Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003.
      African American women tennis players--Biography.
    • Genre/Form:Documentary films.
      Nonfiction films.
    • Also listed under:Buirski, Nancy, film producer.
      James, Elisabeth Haviland, film editor, film producer.
      Miller, Rex (Cinematographer), film director, film producer.
      Augusta Films.
      Icarus Films.
      REXPIX Media (Firm)
      Thornapple Films.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13852579