The Miss America Pageant and its sponsor, the Miss America Organization, has evolved from a beach-side showcase for frolicking bathing beauties to a competition that still includes bathing suits ...

Bay City’s Jenae Lodewyk, the current Miss Michigan, competed in the Miss America contest last weekend, and did not make it as a semifinalist. “It’s definitely a fast-paced week ...

Her pageant career was brief but successful — it ended in 1973 when she finished fourth at the nationally-televised Miss America contest. And it served as a catalyst to launch her into ...

The Miss America pageant has never been a progressive event, but in 1968, it sparked a feminist revolution. As women organized the first protest against Miss America, they were responding not only ...

September 7: The first Miss America Pageant, called the "Inter-City Beauty Pageant," takes place in Atlantic City as a part of a Fall Frolic to attract tourists. There are seven contestants.

According to PBS, pageants started as a "contest of physique" at festivals and photographic competitions. Since the first Miss America pageant in 1921, those early iterations have transformed into ...

The Miss Teen Volunteer America pageant returned to the Carl Perkins Civic Center on Thursday evening, where 51 young women are competing for the coveted crown. The preliminary night kicked off ...

the Tupelo-based organization has advanced contestants to the Top 5 in the Miss America Volunteer pageant, with one being crowned as the winner. On March 8, Izzy Karns of Ellisville was crowned as ...

Next week, women from all over the Last Frontier will be competing for the titles of Miss and Mrs. Alaska for America.But ...