BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 14th June, 1970, Cheryl Adrienne Brown won the Miss Iowa Pageant, thereby becoming the first African-American to compete in the Miss America beauty pageant. Cheryl Adrienne Brown was born in New York City to a black family and later broke down racial barriers in 1970 when she became the […]
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