Bobby Riggs

figure for Title IX, an amendment where colleges are required to spend federal funds on boys and girls equally, to be passed as law (“Billie Jean King Biography”). She also participated in “The Battle of the Sexes,” where she faced ex-tennis star, Bobby Riggs in a match, which she won in five sets (“Filmmaker Essay: On Billie Jean King”). This match empowered women, and showed men that women could compete with them. Billie Jean King was also the first prominent woman athlete to publicly admit…

few and the tone nostalgic, are fine. We know, for example, that Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line, stole home and wore 42 on his back. Muhammad Ali championed equality and said some funny stuff to Howard Cosell. Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs. Their lionization reassures us that the stands they took were good — and can now be consigned to bygone…

changing thing of the 70’s. Some fashion trends that occurred in the 70’s were bellbottoms, tie dye shirts, flower power, and mod clothing. It was quite the time to be alive. Some notable sporting events that occurred was Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes (Kalchik). The Marshall College football team perished in a plane crash, but went onto rebuild a team the next season where…

In the post-war age, the imagery of the American Dream started to shift into the cliché of the suburban family with the white picket fence. While many people belonging to marginalized groups found themselves feeling jaded towards the idea of American Dream and its level of attainability, white women of the middle and upper class were not among the skeptics. Rather, they felt a discontent with their lives that they found hard to articulate. Betty Friedan, the author of the book that sparked the…