The Miss America Protests at 50
Fifty years ago today, the outrageous Miss America protests in Atlantic City brought second-wave feminism into Americans’ living rooms. Here are five reasons why the protests changed the world.
1 Article by: Natasha Zaretsky
Natasha Zaretsky is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University. She is the author of No Direction Home: the American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980 and Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s.