miss america pageant

Think the feminists who protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in the name of women's liberation burned their bras?

Think again. No bras were set aflame that September day. But the idea that they were helped launch the movement onto the national stage.

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UT alumna Briana Truex, 23, has watched the Miss America Pageant every year since she was 5 years old. This fall, she will represent Travis County in the Miss Texas International Pageant.

It is her first time to compete in a pageant.