| Series |
American Heritage
American Heritage. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
Foreword / Ericka Dunlap -- "We bring you beauty in bronze": Early African American pageant tradition and the revision of a limited beauty standard -- "They didn't have many queens my color": Colorism, community and growing up during Jim Crow -- "There was a virtual epidemic of negro homecoming queens": Brewing unrest and pageants as student activism in the Civil Rights Movement -- "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 -- "Stepping out into finer womanhood": Football classics, coronations and a local civil rights legend training queens in respectability and representation -- "Black beauty wins every year": Miss Black USA's founder and the lasting legacy of African American pageants. |
| General note | "Beauty & the black freedom struggle"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pellum, Kimberly Brown. Black beauties. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2020 9781467144827 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019952107 |
| ISBN | 9781439668917 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1439668914 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
