In practice sessions, Ms. Graber had beat two boys who made the team. Ms. Graber joined the team, where by her own admission, she was not the best player but could still claim many wins. At Cornell, where Ms. Graber played on the women’s tennis team, she met another woman who had also secured a position on a boys’ team. Between 1970 and 1972, the number of high school girls participating in team sports increased from 300,000 to 800,000. “I had a gradual awakening based on what I encountered in school, in Ms. magazine, in what was happening in the world around me,” Ms. Graber Jensen told me.

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Persons: Ira Glasser, Graber, —, Phyllis Graber, Phyllis Graber Jensen, Holmes Norton, “, ” Ms, Graber Jensen, ”, Phyllis, Rob Goldberg, Dusty, Goldberg Organizations: American Civil Liberties Union, Education, Bates College, Cornell, tennis, Kenner Locations: Maine