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Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson

1927-08-25
76 (2003-09-28)
Silver, South Carolina, USA

Silver, South Carolina, USA


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The Horse Soldiers 1959 (6.939)

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.


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The Player 1992 (7.2)

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?


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Althea 2014 (7)

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.


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