Welcome - Introduction

Welcome to our blog! The purpose of this project is to analyze Title IX and civil rights in the realm of gender equity with relation to sports. In our analysis we have used a number of different mediums and sources of different natures such as: primary documents, speeches, pictures, interviews, commercials, videos, public service announcements, graphs, and memorandums. Our main point is that the document To Secure These Rights published during the Truman administration paved the road for Title IX. The document was a momentous decision by President Harry S. Truman and a logical place to start our analysis of Title IX and sports. We have broken down the document background below...

Also, in this blog we look at Richard Nixon's passing of Title IX and the role of the NCAA in the process. We also look at the three-prong approach to implementation. We then move on to the wording of Title IX and to women in sports before and after the amendment. We close our analysis with a section of Title IX in the media and end with current developments and issues regarding Title IX.

Context, Chronology, Causes, Contingency, Consequence of
To Secure These Rights

Context:

The report was ordered by President Truman soon after the United States finished fighting in World War II. In the second World War the United States was battling racism and prejudice abroad and when Truman looked at the United States he realized the hypocrisy of fighting against racism internationally but continuing to keep these issues unresolved at home. It was in this context that the President ordered the investigation.

Chronology:

To Secure These Rights was ordered On December 5, 1946 by President Harry Truman to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens. Truman tasked the fifteen member President's Committee on Civil Rights with taking a hard look at America and its civil rights situation. After ten months the Committee presented the President with a 178-page report on October 1947.

Cause:

The main reason that caused the investigation of civil rights in the United States was World War II. Truman ordered the American troops to go fight in Europe to end the racism and prejudice taking over the continent. Throughout this time, the United States was preaching of America's superior morality and notion of freedom. However, the reality at home did not match the ideals that America was preaching abroad. As a result the international pressure to comply with our own American freedom ideals caused Truman to launch an investigation into our civil rights flaws.

Contingency:

When we look at To Secure These Rights it becomes pretty obvious that something needed to be done in America. The civil rights violations in the United States were appalling and it seems commonsensical that the President would want to better the nation. So we ask: What else could Truman have done? The answer is easy. Truman could have not done it! It must have been an incredibly difficult and humbling experience to put lynching and racism on top of national agenda in order to show the nation our flaws and our true colors.

Consequence:

On July 26, 1948, President Truman advanced the recommendations of the report by signing executive orders 9980 and 9981. Executive Order 9980 ordered desegregation of the federal work force and Executive Order 9981, the desegregation of the armed services. He also sent a special message to Congress on February 2, 1948 to implement the recommendations of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights.  There was also Southern backlash mostly because that's where most of the civil rights violations were identified. Finally, as we are arguing here, To Secure These Rights prepared the United States for Title IX.

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