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September 7, 1968: The "Miss America Protest" by New York Radical Women at the Miss America pageant brought widespread media attention to women's liberation.
1media/Miss America 1968 Protest_thumb.jpeg2022-07-29T00:12:49+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4912Fifty years ago—on September 7, 1968—more than 100 women launched a protest at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. The action made national headlines, announcing the arrival of a militant and creative new wave of feminist organizing. More than merely denouncing a single televised event, the protesters connected the pageant with the systemic problems of consumerism, racism, and war—as well as with the routine abuses and humiliations of patriarchy, to which nearly every women in the country could say, “Me too.” “Every day in a woman’s life,” one organizer argued shortly after the protest, “is a walking Miss America contest.”plain2022-07-29T00:13:34+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
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