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Reel Sisters Women’s History Month Screening of ALTHEA

By: African Voices Magazine Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will present a screening of ALTHEA, a documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1950s. In honor of...

Althea (2014)

Biography, Documentary, History, Made for TV, Sports

https://vimeo.com/111702726 Director: Rex Miller Writer(s): N/A Starring: Althea Gibson Synopsis: Althea Gibson, a truant from the rough streets of Harlem, emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950's. Say the name Althea Gibson...