African American women

Content Description This collection includes collected correspondence, clippings, fliers, and other planning and promotional documents removed from a scrapbook documenting this inaugural pageant held in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in 1969, ultimately won by Shirley Washington. Other materials include applications for contest entry, the official contest song, letters of inquiry to churches seeking eligible contestants between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, an organizational structure chart, a telegraph from...