
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.
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.
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.