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Phyllis Ann George (June 25, 1949 – May 14, 2020) was an American businesswoman, actress, and sportscaster.In 1975, George was hired as a reporter and co-host of the CBS Sports pre-show The NFL Today, becoming one of the first women to hold an on-air position in national televised sports broadcasting.
The Miss Georgia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Georgia in the Miss America pageant.. Georgia has won the Miss America crown twice - Neva Jane Langley of Lakeland, Florida who won the 1953 Miss America title, and in 2015, when Betty Cantrell of Warner Robins was named Miss America 2016, making her the first native-born Miss Georgia to hold the Miss ...
Miss America 1971, the 44th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 12, 1970. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Women's Liberation Front demonstrated at the event [ 1 ] and Miss Iowa 1970, Cheryl Browne , [ 3 ] was the first African American contestant in the history of the Miss America pageant.
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, 1923 17 1924: Sept. 6, 1924 Ruth Malcomson [6] Pennsylvania: Philadelphia: 18 1925: Sept ...
The rule was phased out in the 1950s, but it wasn’t until 1970 that a Black woman actually won a state title in order to compete in the pageant and another decade until a Black woman was crowned ...
Miss New York Vanessa Williams was crowned the winner of the 57th Miss America Pageant on Sept. 17, 1983. ... the first Black woman in the pageant’s six-decade history to win the Miss America ...
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. [1] Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", [2] the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: Private Interview (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, On Stage Question (10%) – answering a judge's question ...
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 ...