Storied 1968: Miss America Pageant Protest

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 Shulman Papers, David M.
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph
copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used with permission

To learn more about the event of 1968, be sure to visit the #1968Exhibit at the #MNHistoryCenter…(read more at source)



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