Historian Micki McElya revisits one September afternoon in 1968, Atlantic City, when the Miss America pageant collided with a changing country. Her new book is Liberation Summer.
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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA”)
BERT PARKS: (Singing) There she is, Miss America. There she is, your ideal. The dreams of a million girls who are more than pretty may come true in Atlantic City. Oh, she may turn out to be the queen of
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