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50 Years Later, A Stitch In Time Still Saves Title IX BY TERRANCE GRIEP
The Federal law known as Title IX is often misunderstood. Actually, the federal law known as Title IX is often under-understood. Most people could sum up their comprehension of Title IX as something like this: “Yeah, Title IX, something about women in sports, schools or something, something about the something-something, now shaddup and let me watch the finale of Ozark.” While that summation is not precisely wrong—well, watching the finale of Ozark might be—that summation is woefully incomplete.
In a very real sense, Title IX began with the Civil Rights Act—yeah, that Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, and national origin,” as stated in most of its eleven titles. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in employment…but regrettably skipped over another e-word, education. Hence, the US Congress attempted to catch its own rebound in the form of the Education Amendments of 1972. When Indiana Senator Birch Bayh introduced what would eventuContinue on page 108
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