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Lupita in the Mirror

By Commentaries/Opinions

On October 22, 1949, The New Yorker published a report by Lillian Ross on that year’s Miss America Pageant. It begins,

There are thirteen million women in the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight. All of them were eligible to compete for the title of Miss America in the annual contest staged in Atlantic City last month if they were high-school graduates, were not and had never been married, and were not Negroes.

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