Record Display for the EPA National Library Catalog
RECORD NUMBER: 7 OF 179Main Title | Althea / | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Other Authors |
|
|||||||||||
Publisher | PBS, Distributed by PBS Distribution, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2015 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 922939121 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9781627895101; 1627895108 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Tennis players--United States--Biography ; African American tennis players--Biography ; African American women athletes--Biography | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Gibson, Althea,--1927-2003 | |||||||||||
Internet Access |
|
|||||||||||
Holdings |
|
|||||||||||
Collation | 1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. | |||||||||||
Notes | Originally broadcast Sept. 4, 2015 as an episode of the PBS television series: American Masters. |
|||||||||||
Contents Notes | 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, and 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. |