The Miss Black America Pageant (MBA) has been showcasing the dynamic beauty of African-American women for 44 years, which was began as a natural counter protest to the predominately white Miss America contest.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey was a contestant herself a time ago.
J. Morris Anderson was inspired to create the MBA in 1967 after speaking with his two young daughters who desired to become Miss America, although the contest at the time didn’t allow Black women to join the competition.
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