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The Miss Black America beauty contest is a competition for young African-American women. The pageant has garnered the support of artists, activists and performers including Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and Oprah Winfrey. After 40 years, in 2009 the pageant had a "kick off" in Washington, D.C. to rebrand the competition. The first teen winner ...
Davis, Shirley. "History follows former Miss Iowa First black pageant winner recalls her crowning moment." Quad-City Times, October 19, 2000. "Black New Yorker chosen Miss Iowa." The Register-Guard, July 5, 1970: 8E. "Newly crowned Miss Iowa is 'shocked' at her own victory." Baltimore Afro-American (United Press International), June 27, 1970: 19.
Pages in category "African-American beauty pageant winners" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... This page was last edited on 3 September ...
Miss New York Vanessa Williams was crowned the winner of the 57th Miss America Pageant on Sept. 17, 1983. ... Williams made history by becoming the first Black woman in the pageant’s six-decade ...
Margaret Gorman [3] District of Columbia: Washington: 16 Inter-City Beauty, Amateur: Earned title of "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" (pageant renamed "Miss America" in 1922) 1922: Sept. 7, 1922 Mary Katherine Campbell [4] [5] Ohio: Columbus: 16 Only person to win twice; also was 1st runner-up at the 1924 pageant: 1923: Sept. 7 ...
The next few Black winners came in 1990 with Debbye Turner, 1991 with Marjorie Vincent and 1994 with Kimberly Aiken. But according to Brittany Lee Lewis, a professor of history and also Miss ...
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.
In fact, during Miss America's first 30 years of competition, black women were not even allowed to compete. Miss America Pageant - Season 1 Unfortunately, this historical win didn't come without ...