Thelma Elizabeth Porter Parros was the first black woman in America to win a beauty pageant, she was named 'Miss Subway' in New York City. Porter was born on June 29, 1928, to Sarah and Thomas Porter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Eastern District High School in New York, she went on to attend […]

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