Jack Boucher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1968 Miss America Protest ‘Miss America’ was (and still is) a pageant competition for American women. The competition first ran in the early 1920s as a ‘bathing beauty’ competition, and by 1968 had evolved into a talent competition – although contestants were still judged on their physical appearance,…

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