We continue our salute to Miss America's 1st Runners-Up with the decade of the 1970s. This 22 minute and 30 second long clip features: 1970 - Claudia Turner (SC) 1971 - Karen Herd (ID) 1972 - Constance Dorn (NC) 1973 - Judy Hieke (WI) 1974 - Lucianne Buchanan (CA) 1975 - Susan Lawrence (NC) 1976 - Lavinia Cox (SC) 1977 - Barbara Mougin (IN) 1978 - Theresa Cheatham (AL) 1979 - Tana Carli (OH) What's interesting with this group is that we have two 1st RUs from both North and South Carolina during

1971 Miss America 🇺🇸 Pageant ♥ Talent & Crowning Moment 👑 (September, 12, 1970)

On September 7, 1968, a group of women gathered outside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ to protest the Miss America pageant. For Storied 1968: Miss America Pageant Protest we spoke with former Miss Minnesota 1968, Mary Williams Jasicki, who was a contestant in that year's Miss America Pageant. In this episode, we hear her personal experience as a contestant and what it was like to be in the pageant when protests were going on outside. Photo credit: Bev Grant/Getty Images and Alix Kates Shulm

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