Women's History Month Pageant Fact
A pageant was held in Atlantic City, N.J.
in September 1920 as a way to keep tourists in Atlantic City after the
Labor Day weekend.
The
following year, newspaper sales were hurting due to the advent of
radio, so to increase business, newspapers decided to select
representatives from their respective cities (from among their readers)
and send the winners to Atlantic City as special guests of the Second
Annual Atlantic City Pageant.
Their arrival was heralded in the press,
and thus a contest was quickly designed to select one contestant from
the pool of regional winners. Eventually, the winning contestant became
known as "Miss America".
Miss America 1921, Margaret Gorman, was from the District of Columbia who was a student at Western High School. She is the only Miss America to receive a crown at the conclusion of her year.
She remained a life-long resident of Washington D.C. but enjoyed traveling as a favorite hobby. She passed away in early October 1995 at age 90.
Source: Official Miss America web site
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