Miss America Protests (1968) - Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America - Events - LibGuides at Christopher Newport University

Online Sources: Miss America Protests

Canton's Miss Ohio 1968 talks about women's rights
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"Miss Ohio 1968 Leslyn (Hiple) Stewart talks about her beauty pageant past and women's rights protests at the Miss America pageant. Forty years later, she's embarrassed and keeps it mostly a secret."
First Protests at the Miss America Pageant
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"Eleanor Fischer produced the above report on September 8, 1968 in the wake of a tumultuous Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the coincident police riot against demonstrators. Fischer references the DNC protest several times, covering all the bases: the protestors, the onlookers, the new Miss America, the new Black Miss America and the pageant's chief representative."
The Miss America Protest: 1968
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Photos and other resources provided by the Redstockings website.
Miss America Protests, 1968 and 1969
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"Photographs, articles, flyers, planning documents, and responses to the 1968 and 1969 Miss America pageant protests, the events that launched Women's Liberation in the public consciousness. "
NPR: Pageant Protest Sparked Bra-Burning Myth

Sisterhood is Powerful by Robin Morgan
Call Number: HQ1426.M849 S6
An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement

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