Full Year 2012 - Billie Jean King
Celebrating 40 Years of Title IX: Getting Girls & Women in the Game!
By: Billie Jean King, Council Member, PCFSN
When I was growing up in Long Beach, California in the 1940s and '50s, it never occurred to me that I would not be treated equal to my brother, Randy Moffitt, and would not have the same opportunities as boys to succeed. When I was 12 years old, I promised myself that I would commit my life to fighting for equal rights and opportunities for men and women, boys and girls.
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