{"id":61181,"date":"2023-10-31T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=61181"},"modified":"2024-04-30T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:54:22","slug":"61181","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/61181\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Billie Jean King<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"c89fed7e23e4bb927668e732edb58c17\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR1bc645abdbd7d7e8c565c2316d6624ba\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR1bc645abdbd7d7e8c565c2316d6624ba\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR1bc645abdbd7d7e8c565c2316d6624ba\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61181?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR1bc645abdbd7d7e8c565c2316d6624ba&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61181?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR1bc645abdbd7d7e8c565c2316d6624ba\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 14, 2024<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The UMW James Farmer Multicultural Center Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2024: Billie Jean King\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/923785688?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-194x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-194x300.jpg 194w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p>When Billie Jean King set out to be a champion tennis player in the 1960s, she quickly realized the world she wanted didn\u2019t exist yet for women. So she set out to help create it. Her early life played out against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the women\u2019s movement, the pro-choice and anti-war protests of the 1960s. (The LGBTQ+ movement would come later.) Looking back now, King says, \u201cThere wasn\u2019t just unrest in the world around us. There was a storm gathering inside me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s subsequent achievements as an athlete and activist moved Life magazine to name her one of the 100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century. She turned 80 in November and has never left the public arena nor stopped traveling the world to work for diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>In this Great Lives session, longtime journalist Johnette Howard, who co-wrote King\u2019s best-selling 2021 autobiography All In, will explore the animating principles and takeaways King has gleaned during her life as an activist \u2013 observations that can apply to anyone\u2019s life. Many of the gains that King and others fought for in the last century are being re-argued today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Johnette Howard<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-Prof-Photo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-Prof-Photo-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-Prof-Photo-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Howard-Prof-Photo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Johnette Howard is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist who has worked as a national columnist and longform writer for <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i>, <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, <i>ESPN.com<\/i>, and <i>Newsday<\/i>, among others. Her writing was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general commentary and has been included in nine anthologies, most notably Best American Sports Writing of the Century, which was published in 2000 and edited by David Halberstam.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is the author of two critically acclaimed books. She co-wrote All In: An Autobiography with Billie Jean King (2021). Howard\u2019s first book was The Rivals: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship (2005).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1247],"class_list":{"0":"post-61181","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1247","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Billie Jean King - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/61181\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Billie Jean King\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/61181\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T12:54:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/61181\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/61181\\\/\",\"name\":\"Billie Jean King - 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