Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1968

Miss America protest (1968)

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

When: 7 Sep 1968
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Title VII and the founding of NOW (chapter 2 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
Atlas: 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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National Organization for Women. Factual historical evidence; no source prose reproduced

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