Mickey McElya
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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That's just a side note.
No, and isn't that sort of, isn't that in some ways the whole horrific point, right?
That this is a moment of disciplining everyone, right?
to understand that, yeah, you can't make one wrong move.
Let's take a short break.
If you're just joining us, my guest is historian Mickey McElyea.
We're talking about her new book, Liberation Summer, the real story of the 1968 Miss America protest and how the myth of the bra burners came to define and distort the women's movement for more than half a century.
We'll be back after a break.
This is Fresh Air.
Today I am talking with Mickey McElyea, historian and author of Liberation Summer, the moment that changed the women's movement and the future of American politics.
Okay, I want to go back one last time to that boardwalk in 1968 to the third group of women, which we have been sort of talking about throughout the hour.
And they showed up at the barricades with their own signs.
Miss America is still our ideal.
And one was a former Miss Green Bay wearing a Nixon badge.
Okay.
Can you briefly tell me about this small contingent of women and why does your book take them so seriously at the time?
Because they weren't talked about as much as they were talked about the protesters themselves, the activists.
Yeah.
Partially, I think it's important to think about just what compels these young women to go out there and challenge the women's liberationists, right?
They want to speak back.
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