From Arkansas to Miss America

By Kyle Kellams

Published May 22, 2023 at 12:43 PM CDT

This week Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, examines three Arkansas women who became Miss America.

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