Pageant Protest Sparked Bra-Burning Myth

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 7:30am

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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