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Roderick Jackson, a teacher and coach at Ensley High School in Birmingham, Alabama, watched his girls basketbal team practice each week in an unheated gym with wooden backboards and bent rims. The boys' team had exclusive use of the new, regulation gym. The girls arranged their own transportation to away games, while the boys rode school buses. The boys received a portion of the money from admissions and concessions at their games. The girls did not, even though the teams had to pay for their own game officials.
The coach saw his girls denied access to other amenities, too. "On one occasion," he told reporters at a press conference, "I was forced to break into the ice machine with a screwdriver to put ice on an injured player."
When Jackson complained, he was relieved of his coaching duties. Now his Tide IX retaliation suit is before the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I spoke up on an issue that no one was ready to deal with, all unpopular issue, and I got penalized for it," Jackson said. "And the young ladies at Ensley lost the only person who was willing to speak up for them."
More than 30 years after Title IX of the Education Amendments Was passed in 1972, plaintiffs like Jackson are still fighting for its enforcement. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex by educational institutions that receive federal funds. It applies...
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