This series of photographs is unique for me as I had previously only seen one of them viz switching the driving side of the road from left to right in Sweden. Notwithstanding that the photograph that had the most resonance with me was the series where the Race official Jock Semple tries to push Kathy Switzer off the road after she attempts to run the Boston Marathon, which at the time was a men’s only event. Number 390 pushing Jock away was Kathy’s boyfriend. The year is 1967.
In hindsight the original restriction on female and black athletes was reprehensible and morally wrong. In the case of females the justification for that prohibition was the belief that it would cause problems with child bearing. I can still clearly remember my paternal grandmother making such ludicrous claims.