Girls' Sports: On The Right Track (clip)

[YrNameHr]

here's to Ted Kennedy... instrumental in getting Title IX passed.

[SLFiveMan]

Narrator Katherine Switzer (0:19) ran the Boston Marathon before it was open to women. When word of her presence in the race became known a man named Jock Semple, one of the BAA patricians, tried to physically remove her from the course. In a series of famous photographs a group of male runners formed a cordon around her and one man lowered his shoulder and sent Semple flying as he approached Switzer. She broke down gender inequities through both words and actions.