Read the fine print in this pageant contract, which includes the notorious rule barring non-white women from competing.
A timeline of the pageant and American women's history.
Read about the Miss America Organization, Lenora Slaughter's work to transform the pageant, and its host Bert Parks.
Follow the evolution of beauty culture and pageantry from ancient Greece and medieval era European festivals to modern beauty queens on a world stage.
Read about the pageant's long history of excluding women of color and the 1968 protest.
Watch a preview of Chaing the Moon, Part 2.
Watch a preview of Chasing the Moon, Part 3.
They came for the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound.
Watch Chapter 1 of Chasing the Moon, Part 2.
Watch Chapter 1 of Chasing the Moon, Part 3.
CBS’s broadcast of the moon landing is etched into national memory. But how did TV director Joel Banow create the live 36-hour program we remember?
