Carol Hanisch, who is credited with coming up with the idea for the protest, recalled one protester quipped to a reporter that they were going to burn their bras, and the story took on a life of ...

“It popped into my head that the pageant might be something good to protest because it was very popular at the time and helped set appearance standards for all women,” recalls Carol ...

In reality, no bras were actually burned on the boardwalk in front of the Atlantic City convention hall that hosted the Miss America pageant, says Carol Hanisch, one of the organizers of the protest.

“It popped into my head that the pageant might be something good to protest because it was very popular at the time and helped set appearance standards for all women,” recalls Carol ...

The 1968 uprising was conceived by a radical feminist named Carol Hanisch, who popularized the phrase, “The personal is political.” Disrupting the beauty contest, she thought, in the summer of ...

Carol Hanisch, then 26 : At a New York Radical Women meeting in August, we were watching an art film, Schmeerguntz, that had clips of beauty pageant contestants. I’m an Iowa farm girl who grew ...

“It popped into my head that the pageant might be something good to protest because it was very popular at the time and helped set appearance standards for all women,” recalls Carol ...

Carol Hanisch, the protest's self-described “lead instigator," remembered, “They were yelling things like: ‘Go back to Russia,’ and ‘Which one is your girlfriend?’ and ‘You’re all a bunch of uglies.'" ...

They had intended to burn a trash can filled with bras on the Atlantic City boardwalk, Carol Hanisch, a protest organizer, told National Public Radio in 2008, “but the police department ...