Billie Jean King 
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SOURCE: New York Historical Society
4/7/2022
"Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field" Coming to NYHS in May
The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.
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7/11/2021
The NFL Must Learn Lessons About Inclusion from Women's Sports
by John Howard
If the NFL is sincere in wanting to fight against entrenched homophobia, it should follow the example of women's sports (and be prepared to make partnerships and investments with LGBTQ organizations inside and outside of sports.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/27/2021
Billie Jean King, Foremother
by Robert Lipsyte
Billie Jean King's legacy runs far beyond tennis, and has become even more relevant with the passage of time as challenges to the doctrine of amateurism and the NCAA make clear.
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10-2-17
Billie Jean King Beats Bobby Riggs Once Again in Tennis Battle of the Sexes
by Bruce Chadwick
"Battle of the Sexes" is as much fun as it is sports history and the history of the women’s lib movement in the early ‘70s.
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