Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BEAUTY.) Miss Black Massachusetts Beauty Pageant 1969 & 70. Poster, 22 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, in red and black on card stock; light toning and soiling. Boston: Fashionable Productions, 28 June 1969

Additional Details

The Miss Black America pageant was launched in 1968 in reaction to the segregated Miss America pageant. The poster features the finalists at the first national Miss Black America pageant, which had been held the previous September. Saundra Williams of Philadelphia, the first Miss Black America, is at center.