College Sports for Women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Kittie Blakemore Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5274
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the life and career of West Virginia University women's atheltics trailblazer Kittie Blakemore. Kittie Blakemore is most well known for spearheading the formation of what would later become the Women's Athletics program at WVU alongside Dr. Wincie Ann Carruth after the introduction of Title IX by the federal government in 1972, which guarantees equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of sex or gender. Blakemore also started coaching women's basketball at WVU in...
Dates:
1969-1990
West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...
Dates:
1885-2002 and undated