However, the 1968 Miss Black America Contest ... that she had been told would never appear in print. In 1984 they came out in the most successful issue of Penthouse magazine ever printed ...

Nijah Harden, Miss Black St. Petersburg USA Harden is currently ... Walker has made it her mission to still live out her dreams of competing in pageants while also being a wife and mom.

Some events were more important, politically and socially, than others. The Miss Black America contest defied the exclusion of African American women from the Miss America pageant. The crowning of ...