The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights...
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Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty...
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headline "Bra Burners and Miss America," which conflated the idea of the protest with men who burned their draft cards. A protest held outside Boardwalk...
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area contest to protest the lack of black women in the Miss America pageant. J. Morris Anderson created and produced the Miss Black America Pageant along...
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creating a better design in 1953. In 1968 at the feminist Miss America protest, protesters symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom...
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lycra to offer some figure control. In 1968, at the feminist Miss America protest, protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom...
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Carol Hanisch (category Use American English from July 2022)
conceived the 1968 Miss America protest and was one of the four women who hung a women's liberation banner over the balcony at the Miss America Pageant, disrupting...
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bus protests Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes John Sinclair Freedom Rally March for Truth Million Muslim March Million Puppet March Miss America protest Occupy...
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Hair spray (category American inventions)
selling beauty product on the market. In 1968 at the feminist Miss America protest, protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom...
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doll. Twiggy advanced the trend. In 1968, at the feminist Miss America protest, protestors symbolically threw a number of symbolic feminine products into...
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