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Did Feminists Burn Bras in the Sixties?

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Did Feminists Burn Bras in the Sixties?

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Did Feminists Burn Bras in the Sixties? Friday September 12, 2008 Via Museum of Hoaxes: It is a well known “fact” that feminists burned their bras outside the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Except they didn’t. According to an article in the Press of Atlantic City, members of a group called New York Radical Women did show up raring to burn stuff — including, evidently, their brassieres — but city officials talked them out of it. Instead, the feminists dumped items like high-heeled shoes, bras, false eyelashes and issues of Ladies’ Home Journal into a “Freedom Trash Can.” They paraded a lamb outside Convention Hall and held up signs with such things as “Welcome to the Miss America Cattle Auction” written on them. Inside Convention Hall, demonstrators set off stink bombs during the pageant and unfurled a sign reading

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Did Feminists Burn Bras in the Sixties? Friday September 12, 2008 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Via Museum of Hoaxes: It is a well known “fact” that feminists burned their bras outside the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Except they didn’t. According to an article in the Press of Atlantic City, members of a group called New York Radical Women did show up raring to burn stuff — including, evidently, their brassieres — but city officials talked them out of it. Instead, the feminists dumped items like high-heeled shoes, bras, false eyelashes and issues of Ladies’ Home Journal into a “Freedom Trash Can.” They paraded a lamb outside Convention Hall and held up signs with such things as “Welcome to the Miss America Cattle Auction” written on them. Inside Convention Hall, demonstrators set off

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Did Feminists Burn Bras in the Sixties? Friday September 12, 2008 Via Museum of Hoaxes: It is a well known “fact” that feminists burned their bras outside the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Except they didn’t. According to an article in the Press of Atlantic City, members of a group called New York Radical Women did show up raring to burn stuff — including, evidently, their brassieres — but city officials talked them out of it. Instead, the feminists dumped items like high-heeled shoes, bras, false eyelashes and issues of Ladies’ Home Journal into a “Freedom Trash Can.” They paraded a lamb outside Convention Hall and held up signs with such things as “Welcome to the Miss America Cattle Auction” written on them. Inside Convention Hall, demonstrators set off stink bombs during the pageant and unfurled a sign reading

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