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Miss America protest (1968)

7 Sep 1968 — A few hundred women from New York Radical Women picket the pageant in Atlantic City, crowning a sheep and dropping bras, girdles and mops into a “Freedom Trash Can”. Nothing is burned, yet “bra-burners” enters the language.

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Title VII and the founding of NOW (chapter 2 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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Map showing Miss America protest (1968), turning point in Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
TURNING POINT · PROTEST AND CHANGE: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND TUNISIA, 1945–2015

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● Waveland● NOW founded● Lorena Weeks● Dagenham

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