Despite Lenora Slaughter’s Rule Number Seven, there was and still is a significant amount of diversity among Miss America pageant winners. For example:
Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926 – First Native American to win the title
Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 – First Jewish Miss America
Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995 – First Miss America with a disability
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2013 – First Miss America of Indian descent
“The diversity certainly has increased. What really hasn’t changed, though, is this notion that beauty looks like one thing.” Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990
Who is to judge what beauty is?
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