Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Jersey worn by Jean Schwarzwalder (aka Suzy Hotrod) of the Gotham Girl Roller Derby. Gotham Girl Roller Derby is one of the founding teams of this modern era league established in 2003 and was the first skater-operated team in the New York City area. They have won five of the first six Women's Flat Track Derby Association championships.
- Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Sports
- name of sport
- Roller Derby
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Women
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- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2016.0186.01
- accession number
- 2016.0186
- catalog number
- 2016.0186.01
- Object Name
- roller derby jersey
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 1/2 in x 19 in; 57.15 cm x 48.26 cm
- overall, mounted: 22 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in x 14 in; 57.15 cm x 41.91 cm x 35.56 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_1819291
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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