On September 7, 1968, a group of women gathered outside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ to protest the Miss America pageant. For Storied 1968: Miss America Pageant Protest we spoke with former Miss Minnesota 1968, Mary Williams Jasicki, who was a contestant in that year's Miss America Pageant. In this episode, we hear her personal experience as a contestant and what it was like to be in the pageant when protests were going on outside. Photo credit: Bev Grant/Getty Images and Alix Kates Shulm
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On September 7, 1968, a group of women gathered outside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ to protest the Miss America pageant. For Storied 1968: Miss America Pageant Protest we spoke with former Miss Minnesota 1968, Mary Williams Jasicki, who was a contestant in that year's Miss America Pageant. In this episode, we hear her personal experience as a contestant and what it was like to be in the pageant when protests were going on outside. Photo credit: Bev Grant/Getty Images and Alix Kates Shulm
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In September 1968 on the boardwalk at Atlantic City, feminists protested the beauty pageant's ideal of femininity, and introduced the notion of gender equality to a new audience. https://cbsn.ws/2NenBcQ | CBS Sunday Morning
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