History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 2006 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Miss America
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The idea
In September nineteen sixty-eight New York Radical Women protested at Atlantic City's Miss America pageant against its exploitation of women.
In practice
Protesters crowning a sheep Miss America and tossing away high heels, curlers, girdles and bras, as the anchor describes.
Where people slip
The pageant, the anchor notes, had barred Black and Native American women under a rule requiring contestants to be White.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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