Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South by Kimberly Brown Pellum

Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South

Kimberly Brown Pellum

144 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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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 mo

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