• Miss America 1989, the 62nd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 10, 1988 and was televised...
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  • Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty...
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  • Delander, Miss America 1927 Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943 Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 Marilyn Buferd, Miss America 1946 Jacque Mercer, Miss America 1949...
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  • Miss America 1990, the 63rd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 16, 1989 and was...
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    won the Miss America crown on three occasions. The most recent winner was Gretchen Carlson in 1989. Angelina Amerigo of Mound was crowned Miss Minnesota...
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  • Miss Alabama 1950 and Miss America 1951 Heather Whitestone, Miss Alabama 1994 and Miss America 1995 Deidre Downs, Miss Alabama 2004 and Miss America 2005...
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    Miss America 1984, the 57th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 17, 1983, on NBC Network. Miss...
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  • Miss World 1989, the 39th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1989 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. 78 contestants...
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    Miss Gay America is a national pageant for female impersonators. Established in 1972, the pageant is based on the Miss America contest and follows a similar...
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    The Miss Maryland competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maryland in the Miss America pageant. Kennedy Taylor was...
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    African American winner of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Several weeks before the end of her reign, however...
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    the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989 Kim Greenwood and it is hosted in McDonough, Georgia. Georgia has had a fair success at Miss USA, and has yet...
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  • The Miss Teenage America Pageant was a United States beauty pageant started in 1961 as a pageant for high school girls. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was...
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    The Miss Black America beauty contest is a competition for young African-American women. The pageant has garnered the support of artists, activists and...
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  • Hicks (Kentucky) later won the 1995 Miss Kentucky title and competed at Miss America 1996. Miss Nevada Teen USA 1989 was initially Heather McLeod, who was...
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  • Miss USA 1989 was the 38th Miss USA pageant, televised live from the Mobile Civic Center Theatre in Mobile, Alabama on February 28, 1989. At the conclusion...
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    Gretchen Carlson (category Miss America winners)
    becoming a beauty pageant contestant. After winning Miss Minnesota in 1988, Carlson became Miss America for 1989. She attended Stanford University and graduated...
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  • Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on his 1987 play of the same name...
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  • Miss America 1951, the 24th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 9, 1950. Based on the majority...
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    Miss América Latina or Miss América Latina del Mundo, known in English as Miss Latin America or Miss Latin America of the World, is an international beauty...
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    Mary Ann Mobley (category Miss America 1950s delegates)
    an American actress, television personality, and Miss America 1959. Mobley was born in 1937 in Biloxi, Mississippi. After her reign as Miss America 1959...
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  • were former teens. Only four Miss Maryland USA has competed at Miss America. From 2006 to 2008, each woman who won Miss Maryland USA was the previous...
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  • The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights...
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  • The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the...
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  • Organización Miss América Latina, known in English as the Miss Latin America Organization is a company that owns and organizes the Miss Latin America and Miss Latina...
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  • The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1937 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three...
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  • "There She Is, Miss America" is a song written by songwriter Bernie Wayne for the Miss America pageant. It was first made famous in 1955 by master of...
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  • Miss Indian America was a pageant from 1953 to 1989 that was part annual All-American Indian Days festival in Sheridan, Wyoming. Each contestant was assessed...
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    Nina Davuluri (category Miss America winners)
    1989) is an American public speaker, advocate, and beauty queen who hosts the reality show Made in America on Zee TV America from Manhattan. As Miss America...
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