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The Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant is a national scholarship competition for young women of African descent that was founded in 1986 by Karen Arrington. [1] [2] While Ms. Arrington has a long-standing history of hosting a national Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant, her system has not been exclusive in doing so consecutively.
Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. Titleholders Nine Miss USA winners have gone on to become Miss Universe and are indicated in bold face.
Carole Anne-Marie Gist (born May 8, 1969) is an American tv host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1990. Gist was the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title. [1] Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2, 1990, in Wichita, Kansas.
Deshauna Barber (born December 6, 1989) is an American motivational speaker, beauty pageant titleholder and captain in the United States Army Reserve. [2] On June 5, 2016, she was crowned Miss USA 2016 by the outgoing titleholder Olivia Jordan of Oklahoma. [3]
Alma Oralia Minerva Cooper [2] was born March 17, 2002 [1] in Okemos, Michigan to parents Stacey and Oralia Cooper, and describes herself as a "lifelong Michigander". [3] [4] [5] Her father is African-American and a retired major in the United States Army, while her mother is a former pageant contestant and migrant worker from Mexico who came to the United States at age six.
Miss New York Vanessa Williams was crowned the winner of the 57th Miss America Pageant on Sept. 17, 1983. -- (Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) (NBC via ...
Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operated both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA, until 2020, when the organization announced it was licensing operation of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to Crystle Stewart, Miss USA for 2008 prior to her ...
Williams made history by becoming the first black woman crowned in the pageant's 63-years. In fact, during Miss America's first 30 years of competition, black women were not even allowed to ...