Yolande Betbeze 1928-2016. The Miss America who picketed for civil rights was 87

[marylander1940]

Before she was an alluring mainstay of Washington’s watusi-era salons and soirees, Yolande Betbeze Fox was a rebellious, convent-educated, Alabama-born beauty queen. As Miss America of 1951, she alarmed organizers when she refused to squeeze into a bathing suit for cheesecake photos, publicly lambasted the pageant for excluding minorities, and picketed for civil rights.

 

In a life as nonconformist as it was glamorous, she was also an off-Broadway producer, lighted off to Cuba with a rodeo, married a onetime Hollywood “wonder boy,” and was the longtime companion of an Algerian revolutionary-turned-diplomat

 

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/yolande-betbeze-fox-dies-miss-america-who-picketed-for-civil-rights-was-87-1.11518068

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_Fox

[tyro]

RIP, feisty, gorgeous lady.

T

[+ quoththeraven]

This is the first I heard of her. She led an interesting life.

[marylander1940]

This is the first I heard of her. She led an interesting life.

 

 

 

RIP, feisty, gorgeous lady.

T

 

I hope one day there's a movie about her.

[seaboy4hire]

What a ballsy bitch! And I mean that with respect. Yes a movie or better yet a book cause it can hold more detail and info should be done.

 

Hugs,

Greg