She had, after all, been pressured (unsuccessfully ... dating farther back than the Miss America contest. However, the 1968 Miss Black America Contest, held in Atlantic City on the same day ...

Oliphant, an East Central Community College student, stated that she is committed to improving childhood reading in Mississippi ...

Williams became the first Black Miss America at the pageant ... the former crown-holder spoke with the Miss America Organization. Eventually all parties got on the same page.

A prominent black feminist activist and lawyer ... mistakes of the whole pageant was our anti-womanism...Miss America and all beautiful women came off as our enemy instead of our sisters who ...