Gymnastics pin
name: label: used by
content: Cohen, Amy
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round orange plastic button with white printing on the front, "IF YOU WERE A [/] GYMNAST [/] YOU'D BEAM TOO!" belonging to Amy Cohen. Cohen was the co-captain of the 1992 Brown University’s Women’s Gymnastics team and one of twelve plaintiffs in a Title IX lawsuit against the school. In 1991, Brown University was cutting funding for two women’s varsity teams including gymnastics and two men’s teams, golf and water polo. In 1997, the suit was resolved when the Supreme Court failed to hear its appeal and funding was restored to the four varsity sports and three other sports were converted to varsity status. In the March 15, 2019 issue of the Brown University’s, College Hill Independent, “Cohen v. Brown would go on to define how athletics departments manage participation opportunities at Brown and surrounding universities. Almost 30 years later, “following recent federal announcements of changes to the ways universities must interpret Title IX regarding sexual and gender-based violence, this case exemplifies the complexity of the law’s impact on gender equity in higher education.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: web subject
content: Title IX
label: web subject
content: Women
label: name of sport
content: Gymnastics
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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: 2019.0202.07
label: accession number
content: 2019.0202
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0202.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin, title IX
label: Object Name
content: Title IX pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 5.715 cm