Promotional card for the Gotham Girls Roller Derby
name: label: user
content: Langmade, Emily
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Promotional card for the Gotham Girls Roller Derby with color images of roller derby girls on the front of the card and the dates and times of tournaments listed in black, yellow, red and blue print. Emily Langmade, as Fisticuffs, started her career with the Tucson Roller Derby and later joined the Gotham Girls who went on to become four time champions at Women's Flat Track Roller Derby. Langmade saw the sport change from a hard hitting free for all to a serious sport with worlds class athletes.
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: 2016.3170.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3170
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3170.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: promotional card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 4 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm