Black beauties : african american pageant queens in the segregated south
In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beauty pageants created a distinctive and celebrated cultural tradition during some of the most dismal times in the country's racial history. With the ri...
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Arcadia Publishing Inc
2020
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