Women's History Month

The Milwaukee Does were a team in the Women's Professional Basketball League. Playing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Milwaukee Arena, their name was a take on their NBA team the Milwaukee Bucks. The Does played in the first two of the WPBL's three seasons, 1978-1979...

The Cleveland Rockers played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 until 2003. The Rockers were one of the original eight franchises of the WNBA but were folded despite putting competitive teams on the court and drawing a respectable number of fans...

The original Philadelphia Freedoms were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. They were led by player coach Billie Jean King. Their biggest fan was King's close friend Elton John who wrote a song in the team's honor. The Freedoms posted the league's...

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) and played12 seasons starting in 1943 and ending in 1954. The Grand Rapids Chicks played from 1945 until the league folded, winning titles in 1947 and 1953. The AAAGPBL was founded by MLB executives Phillip Wigley, Branch...

Annie, get your gun, YOU get this great T-shirt celebrating Southwest, Ohio's most famous sharpshooter. Born in Greenville, Ohio, just northwest of Dayton, she began her career as a professional sharpshooter in Cincinnati in 1875 when she was just 15. She once said, "I...

The Toronto-Buffalo Royals, or sometimes called the Buffalo-Toronto Royals, were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT). The Royals played half of their home matches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the other half in Buffalo, New York. The Royals played only one season before being sold and moving to Hartford,...

Harriet Tubman??was an??abolitionist??and political activist. Born into??slavery, Tubman escaped in 1849 and went on to embark on roughly 13 missions to rescue around 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,??using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the??Underground Railroad. Following the...

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist, best known for her pivotal role in the??Montgomery bus boycott. She??has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

Carry Nation, born in Garrard County, Kentucky, is probably the most recognized name from the temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As part of her campaign against alcohol, she would march into bars or saloons, occasionally with women of like...