Title IX: Scurry’s career, law forever linked at Smithsonian | Living

Briana Scurry’s U.S. national soccer team jersey is at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in a permanent display that notes the contribution of Title IX to leveling the playing field.


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