Vanessa Williams,first black woman to win the Miss America Title 1983

Vanessa Williams made history on September 17, 1983, when she became the first black woman to win the Miss America Title in 1983

On July 23,1984,Vanessa Williams gave up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant's history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude photos of the beauty queen in its September issue

Vanessa Lynn Williams(DOB March 18, 1963)in 1982, while working a summer job as a receptionist at a modeling agency in Mt. Kisco, New York, photographer Thomas Chiapel took the nude pictures of Williams, telling her they'd be shot in silhouette and that she wouldn't be recognizable. After Williams became Miss America, the photographer sold the pictures to Penthouse without her knowledge