Flashing lights from cameras taking photos. These are the things most of us think about, when we imagine what it’s like to be crowned as Miss America. But what’s it really like to hear your ...

The Miss America organisation said that she had broken ... Williams missed out on a Broadway acting gig in the aftermath of the scandal, due to the damage to her public image, and was the target ...

Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 and daughter of Russian-Jewish ... saw racial politics at the heart of the scandal, and debated how Williams' race might have affected events.

Unfortunately, Slaughter's early years were plagued with scandal and notoriety. In 1935, a sculptor unveiled a nude statue of that year's Miss America, Henrietta Leaver. Later, Miss America 1937 ...