SEPTEMBER 20: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Billie Jean King

Today in 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby “No-Broad-Can-Beat-Me” Riggs in the battle of the sexes tennis match.

Anna Strauss, the League of Women Voters national president from 1944 to 1950, was born today in 1899.

Judith Baca, a Chicana visual artist and muralist and community activist, was born today in 1946.