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Why did the organizers of the 1967 Boston Marathon attempt to stop Katherine Switzer from participating? And if they didn't want women to participate, why didn't they make a rule against it?

by /u/9XsOeLc0SdGjbqbedCnt in /r/AskHistorians

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