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Title: State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Author : Melissa Isaacson

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ISBN-10 : 1572842660

ISBN-13 : 9781572842663

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State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation BY Melissa Isaacson

Read Online and Download State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation. Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality--or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it.In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson--along with a group of other girls who'd spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play--entered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For Missy, that turned out to be the basketball team.Title IX had passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity competition--and state tournaments--for girls' high school sports.At the time, Missy and her teammates didn't really understand the legislation. All they knew .

State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation by Melissa Isaacson

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