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Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South (American Heritage)

Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South (American Heritage)

Current price: $23.99
Publication Date: February 3rd, 2020
Publisher:
History Press
ISBN:
9781467144827
Pages:
144
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Description

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.