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Apr 14, 2019 · Leave a comment if you have more detail to add!Recorded live to tape, September 17th, 1983. Presented in context with ads for the purposes of historical pres...
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Nov 24, 2009 · On July 23, 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude...
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Jun 16, 2006 · Here's the 1984 Miss America crowning moment with Vanessa Williams as the winner
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Forty-years ago, Vanessa William made pageant history by winning Miss America 1984. It marked the first time that a woman of color won the coveted Miss Ameri...
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Second half of Vanessa William's Miss America resignation speech—Getty Images video, July 23, 1984. Miss America 1984. Vanessa Williams crowned Miss America 1984—Miss America 1984, September 17, 1983; Vanessa Williams performs "Happy Days Are Here Again", Miss America 1984, September 17, 1983.
Jul 23, 2015 · By Jennifer Latson. July 23, 2015 10:30 AM EDT. I t might have been the lowest point in her life, as she told People in 1984, but the scandal that led Vanessa Williams to resign her post as Miss...
She gained recognition as the first African-American woman to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984, but resigned her title amid a media controversy surrounding nude photographs of her being published in Penthouse magazine.