Candy Jones
The 1st runner up of Miss America 1964 was Roseanne Tueller, Miss Washington DC.
The 1st runner up at the 1946 Miss America pageant was Rebecca Jane McCall, Miss Arkansas.
The last five finalists were Miss Arkansas, Miss Louisiana (third runner-up), Miss Tennessee (second runner-up), Miss California (first runner-up), and Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron was crowned Miss America 2010.
* Miss America 1986: Susan Akin (Miss Mississippi) * First runner-up: Sherry Thrift (Miss South Carolina) * Second runner-up: Jonna Fitzgerald (Miss Texas) * Third runner-up: Honey Castro (Miss Washington) * Fourth runner-up: Angela Tower (Miss Alabama)
Miss America 1991: Marjorie Vincent (Miss Illinois) First runner-up: Mary Waddell Gainey (Miss South Carolina) Second runner-up: Dana Brown (Miss Tennessee) Third runner-up: Suzanne Lawrence (Miss Texas) Fourth runner-up: Linnea Fayard (Miss Louisiana)
The winner of the 1941 Miss America pageant was Rosemary LaPlanche, Miss California.
No, Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady was not black.
The 2nd runner up of Miss America 1972 was Deborah Ann O'Brien, Miss Massachusetts.
The 1st runner-up at the 2012 Miss America pageant was Betty Thompson, Miss Oklahoma.
After the scandal that dethroned the first African-American Miss America, Vanessa Williams, a new Miss America had to take her place after she resigned. Suzette Charles became the second African-American Miss America of 1984, when she replaced Vanessa.
The winner of the Miss America pageant in 1941 was Rosemary LaPlanche from Los Angeles, California.
Claire Ford; Miss Black Tennessee was Miss Black America Mary Denise Bentley; Miss Black Indiana was First Runner Up Valerie Hines; Miss Black South Carolina was a Runner Up Candi Alexander; Miss Black New York was a contestant