Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) An early Miss Black America program and related documents. 4-page pamphlet, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches on one folding sheet, with folds and minor soiling; plus 12 pages of apparently contemporary photocopied pageant document, some of them toned or folded and one with an annotation. Newark, NJ, June 1969 and undated
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The Miss Black America competition was founded in reaction to the largely segregated Miss America. The first pageant was held in Atlantic City, NJ on 7 September 1968--just across town from the Miss America pageant on the same day. This lot includes:

An original program, "Miss Black America Incorporated Presents Miss Essex County," Newark, NJ, 29 June 1969.

Photocopied documents including a blank "Contract for executive officers of Miss Black America Beauty Pageant"; "Rules and Regulations for the Branches"; "Rules and Regulations, Contestants of Miss Black America Pageant"; "How a Contest Should be Judged"; Constitution and by-laws; circular letter to advertisers; and a short essay placing the pageant in the context of the nation's recent riots and protests.