Americans & Their Games: Sports and the Quest for Women’s Rights

<p>In this third episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the quest for women’s rights through the lens of sports. From Catharine Beecher in the 19th century advocating physical education for girls through the New Woman at the turn of the 20th century to Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Althea Gibson pre-Title IX to 1972’s Title IX’s epoch shaking transformation of women’s sports to todays’s Women’s World Cup we’ll trace the interconnectedness of women’s sports and women’s quest for political and legal equality. That’s in Episode #36 of The American Tapestry Project.</p>