Sexual Rights
Around the mid and late 20th century, women across America were screaming for gender rights. They no longer wanted to be looked down upon by males. They demanded equality. As it was said back in the Civil War era, every man is born with certain unalienable rights, and some of which stripped from all women, such as Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness. But women no longer wanted to be held back. They wanted to lead their lives in the way they wanted to and not be governed by men over everything they can and cannot do.
Miss America Protest
On September 7th, 1968 in Atlantic City, the Annual Miss America Pageant was to again crown "your ideal." However a large group of feminists had a different agenda for the day. They paraded the streets holding large banners and signs that read things that slandered the Miss America Pageant. They were strongly against it. As Martha Rampton from the Pacific University puts it, they believed that the pageant was "a degrading 'cattle parade' that reduced women to objects of beauty dominated by a patriarchy that sought to keep them in the home or in dull, low-paying jobs." Soon after, Rampton says, a radical feminist group called the Redstockings "staged a counter pageant in which they crowned a sheep as Miss America and threw 'oppressive' feminine artifacts such as bras, girdles, high-heels, makeup and false eyelashes into the trashcan." All of this was in an effort to show how dedicated they were to make a change in the United States. A change that didn't come about for another decade.