HOW DOES ONE CORRECT A PAGEANT RECORD? You have a supprise comming..guess who the REAL FIRST BLACK CONTESTANT was? NOT Vanessa Williams in the 80's, but MY MOTHER,SYLVIA CANADAY 3rd runner up 1949. YEP FOLKS...I can PROOVE IT. My GRANDFATHER was High Yellow, but Ancestry.com has his BLACK MILITARY RECORD..mommy was 1/2 BLACK..AND a DIRECT DECENDANT OF KING CHARLAMENGE! She looked white as snow! She and grandma faked her heartige records because RULE #7 said:"no NON-WHITE contestants". You helped place an incorrect fact in BLACK HISTORY and the REAL STORY of what happened is LOST. That's kinda 'scuzzy'..you REALLY SHOULD correct the record. My mother's story is actually a story of a girl WHO HAD A DREAM..and stepped over the racism of the time..tricked you guys..and took her prize! That's pretty gutsy for a kid in the 40's! Her story SHOULD BE TOLD. Your records are wrong..you are cheating an ENTIRE RACE out of the TRUTH..you ignore my emails..maybe, you'll see this POST!