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email Vanessa Williams Reflects On Backlash She Received From The Black Community After Winning Miss America Pageant
She was the first African American to be crowned, but dealt with ugly criticism from her own.
Published February 19th
In 1983, Vanessa Williams made history as the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America. But while she received excessive racist backlash from white people, angered that a Black woman would hold the title, there were also some in the Black community who were outraged by her winning the crown as well.
On A&E’s The Table Is Ours podcast, which ran Wednesday (Feb. 17), Williams reflected on her historic win, “I was not seen as a 20-year-old, who is a junior in college. I was seen as a symbol, but also seen as a Black woman, and [I was] also seen as someone who was supposed to represent the American beauty and there are a lot of folks that did not believe that having brown skin and being a Black woman represented the Miss