Cheryl Browne: Difference between revisions

{{about|the Miss America contestant|the American politician|Cheryl Brown}}

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{{quote box|width=30%|align=right|quote="Iowans were very accepting of me, but I think it took the country by surprise to realize that it was a young woman from Iowa who became the first African-American contestant. I don't feel I personally changed the pageant. but I feel that my presence expanded people's minds and their acceptance. And, in subsequent years, they were much more open to African-American candidates [...] I didn't feel hounded by the press, but it was obvious that security was tight —especially at Convention Hall rehearsals when our chaperones weren't always present. There were [[Second-wave feminism|women's lib protesters]] on the Boardwalk, and no one knew whether there would be more protesters because of the African-American connection." |source=—Cheryl Browne on the reaction to her involvement in the Miss America pageant<ref name=history/>}}

 

==Photographs==

*[http://www.comanchero.org/pictures59.htm Photographs taken at the MISS AMERICA U.S.O. SHOW to Vietnam in 1971]

 

==Further reading==