Robin Morgan recently ran into a former colleague from her New Left political days. “He’s a stockbroker now, which I think is wonderfully ironic,” says Morgan, editor in chief of Ms. magazine. But the ...

As a baby boomerI recall the women's rights protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Women were burning their bras for equity - rallying for equal pay, equal work and an equal access to education.

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about second-wave pageant protests Bonnie J. Morris “Why Miss World?” fliers were produced for the protest against the Miss World contest in London, ...

There’s something of an ongoing debate among historians and chroniclers of the 1960s progressive movement about the origins and accuracy of stories about bra-burning feminists. (Though they may now be ...

About 100 protesters flocked to the Atlantic City boardwalk in the summer of 1968 to protest what they called a sexist “cattle auction.” That cattle auction was the Miss America pageant — the Super ...

During a demonstration by feminists at the 1968 Miss America pageant, some bras -- along with numerous other items -- were burned when a trash receptacle was briefly set alight. What's False The ...