Susan B. Anthony Or Sojourner Truth In The Success Of Kathrine Switzer

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Kathrine Switzer is not a name you as often as Susan B. Anthony or Sojourner Truth in the fight towards women's equality, but in 1967 she made a stand for all women and proved that she was and still is strong enough to do anything a man can do. Run the Boston Marathon, this little task to some now was a huge step for her, she had to push against everything almost every man most of her life except or few, including one of the men's coaches “A woman can't run the Boston Marathon. Women are too weak and too fragile for 26.2 miles. No dame ever ran no marathon.”(ESPN). During a time period where women in the United States were fighting for equality in the world, Kathrine Switzer battled her way for equality in the world of sports. In 1967 she …show more content…

Kathrine knew that she was meant to do so much more than to sit around and let other people play the game, this thought of equality was instilled in her young by her father who said to her ‘"Cheerleaders cheer for other people, You want people to cheer for you. The game is on the field. Life is to participate, not to spectate."’(ESPN). This stuck with her through life, she was a fighter and when she knew it was time to run her race Kathrine remember this and it pushed her through even at her weakest, and most vulnerable of times. Men didn't understand that she or any women was much more than a housewife, Katherine throughout her life dealt with this conflict. Katherine when explaining how women were treated in that time said "Let me paint you a picture about the status quo for women when I was growing up, we have a box here, and a woman's job is to mind the house, her husband, take care of the kids and be feminine and domestic." (ESPN). This is so significant because you can see how women were oppressed by this statement and how she had used her strength and pushed through the oppression not only by word, but by force and you can see this when she was physically harmed during Boston. While running Boston as I just stated she was physically attacked by the …show more content…

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