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Also known as: Inter-City Beauty contest, Miss America Pageant
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John M. Cunningham
John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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Miss America, competition held annually in which young women representing each of the U.S. states, as well as the District of Columbia, compete by demonstrating a range of skills such as leadership, poise, and artistic talent. The winner, determined by a panel of judges, is awarded the title Miss America and at least $50,000 in scholarship money. As the titleholder, she then embarks on a yearlong national tour to advocate for a social issue she has chosen. The pageant originated as the Inter-City Beauty contest, a newspaper-sponsored competition organized in 1921. Women and girls who had won “popularity contests” held ...(100 of 570 words)

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