Black beauties : African American pageant queens in the segregated South / Kimberly Brown Pellum ; foreword by Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004.
| Author/creator | Pellum, Kimberly Brown author. |
| Other author | Dunlap, Ericka, 1982- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource (142 pages ) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | American Heritage American Heritage. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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) |