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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. "We Bring You Beauty in Bronze"
• Early African American Pageant Tradition and the Revision of a Limited Beauty Standard
• 2. "They Didn't Have Many Queens My Color"
• Colorism, Community and Growing Up during Jim Crow
• 3. "There Was a Virtual Epidemic of Negro Homecoming Queens"
• Brewing Unrest and Pageants as Student Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
• 4. "This Is Better Than Being Miss America"
• African Americans in Mainstream Contests and the Emergence of the Miss Black America Pageant during the Black Power Era
• 5. "Stepping Out into Finer Womanhood"
• Football Classics, Coronations and a Local Civil Rights Legend Training Queens in Respectability and Representation
• 6. "Black Beauty Wins Every Year"
• Miss Black USA's Founder and the Lasting Legacy of African American Pageants.

Author/Creator:

Pellum, Kimberly Brown , author

Contributors:

Dunlap, Ericka , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Black beauties: African American pageant queens in the segregated South [by Pellum, K.B.]

Subjects:

Beauty contests — Southern States — History

Beauty contestants — Southern States

African American women — Social life and customs

African American women college students — Social life and customs

Racism in popular culture — Southern States

General Notes:

"Beauty & the black freedom struggle"--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HQ1220.U6 P45 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781439668917 (electronic bk.)
1439668914 (electronic bk.)
9781467144827 [Invalid]
1467144827 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1269308919

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6028845 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301076510