Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South

by Kimberly Brown Pellum

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467144827
• ISBN13: 9781467144827
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"