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A protest against the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City New Jersey 1969. https://t.co/wpvHSAJMzW

1970 - The Statue of Liberty Has Long Been a Magnet for Protest - A group of women rally at the Statue of Liberty in August, 1970. In the background on the Statue of Liberty reads a banner saying, “Women of the World Unite.” In 1970, feminist Betty Friedan called for a national women’s strike on August 26 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted U.S. women the right to vote. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images). HISTORY

On the 8th of March is the international women's day. It's celebrate every years in all the world. The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In 1910 the first international women's conference was held in Copenhagen by the Second International and an 'International Women's Day' was established, which was submitted by the important Germa. In 1930 one textil mill was burnt and 146 women were working. All women…

This is a famous photograph taken in 1969 of a shy secretary named Shelley Drake holding aloft a discarded bra during Anti-Bra Day in San Francisco. This was when the women’s liberation move-ment was in full swing, and the brassiere was regarded as an offending piece of “body machinery”, designed by men and foisted on women. Dispensing with it, preferably burning it, and doing so in public, was deemed to be an act of liberation.

You may have heard of feminists burning their bras, but where did this myth of bra-burning come from?

Protesting outside Miss America 1968, women threw mops, make-up and bras into a "Freedom Trash Can" - but never set them alight.

Political activist Yuri Kochiyama was born in San Pedro, California.