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.