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A "fat-in" protesting discrimination against fat people takes place New York City.

1967

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Around 500 people gather in Central Park, burning diet books and carrying signs that celebrate fatness and call out anti-fat discrimination. The protest inspires Lew Louderback to write an article entitled "More People Should be Fat" in the Saturday Evening Post the same year.