Roller derby skates worn by Nicole Williams (aka Bonnie Thunders)
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Roller derby skates worn by Nicole Williams (aka Bonnie Thunders) while Captain of the 5 time Women's Flat Track Derby Association Champion's Gotham Girls Roller Derby. These are signature series skates featuring the lightning bolt worn by Bonnie Thunders. Gotham Girls Roller Derby is one of the founding teams of this modern era league established in 2003 and was the first skater-operated team in the New York City area. They have won five of the first six Women's Flat Track Derby Association championships.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0192.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0192
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0192.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skates, roller derby
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: urethane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm x 26.035 cm