Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.
Production | John Amos | Executive Producer |
Production | Nancy Buirski | Producer |
Sound | David Majzlin | Original Music Composer |
Writing | David Majzlin | Musical |
Production | Billie Jean King | Executive Producer |
Directing | Rex Miller | Director |
Camera | Rex Miller | Director of Photography |
Production | Rex Miller | Producer |
Editing | Elisabeth Haviland James | Editor |
Production | Elisabeth Haviland James | Producer |
Production | William Ackman | Executive Producer |