What the records say
- When
- 7 Sep 1968
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 39.36° N, 74.42° W
- Description
- Demonstration held at the Miss America 1969
- Cause
- women's emancipation
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Miss America protest
Demonstration held at the Miss America 1968
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 advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included putting symbolic feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk, including bras, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, false eyelashes, mops, and other i…
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “150 women (members of New York Radical Women) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant for being exploitative of women”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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