MS_0026 - Kimberly Brown Collection

This collection contains "Queen Like Me: The True Story of Girls Who Changed the World," a book by author, two-time FAMU alum, and former "Miss FAMU" pageant queen Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum. It includes various copies of the publication and miscellaneous documents associated with it, such as children's worksheets.

According to https://www.childrensdefense.org/people/dr-kimberly-brown-pellum/, “Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum is an assistant professor of history at Florida A&M University and founding director of MuseumofBlackBeauty.com, an interactive digital history initiative. She specializes in the history of 20th-century African American women, image-making, southern culture, and freedom. Her most recent book is Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South. Her contributions to publicly accessible history include work at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, The National Park Service, The Rosa Parks Museum, and Google’s Arts & Culture series.”

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