The fat acceptance movement
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969. Its first president was Bill Fabrey, a thin man married to an overweight woman who had realised how difficult life was for fat people in the USA. One of NAAFA's first members Sue Morgan, and Bill Fabrey, have been speaking to Lucy Burns about the early days of fat acceptance.
Photo: Participants in the Million Pound March, 1998 in Santa Monica, California. Sponsored by NAAFA. (Credit: Gilles Mingasson/Liaison/Getty Images)
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| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. |
| 1:00.3 | Hi and thanks for downloading Witness History from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to June 1969 and the birth of a new movement promoting civil rights for fat people |
| 1:16.4 | with the first meeting of the National Association to aid fat Americans. Our story starts at a dinner given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Rochester, New York. |
| 1:33.0 | Susan Morgan, then Susan Blowers, |
| 1:35.4 | was there so her husband Bill could pick up an award |
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