Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics
By Micki McElya
Narrated by: Em Grosland
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A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss American Pageant-one led by women's liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black America Pageant-and the birth of a new politics of beauty.
A revolution was brewing. In the dying days of the summer of 1968, during one unprecedented Pageant weekend, Atlantic City played host not only to the fifty young contestants and thousands of eager visitors who had arrived in town fo...
A revolution was brewing. In the dying days of the summer of 1968, during one unprecedented Pageant weekend, Atlantic City played host not only to the fifty young contestants and thousands of eager visitors who had arrived in town fo...






















