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#MissUSA #MissTeenUSA #MissAmerica #African-American #BlackAmerican #BeautyPageants (CNN) For the first time, America's top beauty pageants --  Miss USA , Miss Teen USA and  Miss America  -- have   crowned black women as their winners at the same time. And that's a big deal if you know pageant history. Beauty pageants early in their histories, some dating back to the 1920s, barred women of color from participating. Even after organizations began changing their rules to accept women of all races, there was still a lingering frustration and opposition to join. Only in the last 50 years have black women become more prevalent in these competitions.  Vanessa Williams was the first black Miss America  in 1983, and  Carole Anne-Marie Gist , the first black Miss USA contestant, was crowned in 1990. The following year  Janel Bishop  became the first black Miss Teen USA. So when Cheslie Kryst was named 2019's Miss USA on Thursday, she   became part of a histo