On this day, October 15, 1965, a draft card was burned during an anti-war rally.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15

• 1965 – Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.

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1. A few years later it became Burn That Bra.

https://groovyhistory.com/burn-the-bra

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During the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force in the United States. Unless you were living under a rock somewhere, it was hard not to be exposed to the issues surrounding the need for equality. While the movement began with the basic human rights theory that all men were created equal, meaning both black and white men. Well, somewhere along the line, a group of women grew a collective backbone and decided that if all men were created equal, that should also include women!

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2. 100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45303069

100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists

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But what stuck in the public consciousness about the protest was the image of the "bra-burning feminist" - something that paradoxically never actually happened.

Some women did throw underwear, including bras, into the Freedom Trash Can.

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