{"id":39143,"date":"2014-12-30T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39143"},"modified":"2017-03-25T00:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T00:53:55","slug":"pretty-mother-of-2-is-pasadena-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39143","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Mother Of 2 Is Pasadena Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty Mother Of 2 Is Pasadena Queen<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jet<\/a>
\n1958-09-18
\npage 62<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAssociation president Jack Barnes presents Mrs. Williams’ trophy.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In conservative, dignified Pasadena, Calif.<\/a>,\u2014a city whose traditional reserve is normally broken only once annually by the famed New Year\u2019s Day \u201cTournament Of Roses<\/a>“\u2014a tawny-complexioned mother of two broke the tranquility ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Joan Roberta Williams, the first Negro chosen \u201cMiss Crown City\u201d in the 12-year history of the contest, will be the reigning beauty at official city ceremonies and will perform her first duty in November when she opens the Pasadena branch of Sears. Come New Year’s Day, she\u2019ll grace the city\u2019s \ufb02oat<\/a> in the \u201cTournament of Roses” parade.<\/p>\n

Bolstered by the faith of her sales representative husband, Bob, and armed with the double weapons of good looks and an engaging personality, Mrs. Williams overcame what she considered great odds\u201415 other pretty nominees\u2014to capture the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband was confident all the time, and because of him, I really wanted to win. He was so elated, he bought me a new\u00a0wardrobe,\u201d she smiled. A city-employed accountant-clerk, college-trained Mrs. Williams is one of a handful of Negro white collar workers employed by the city. Nominated by fellow employes, she was crowned at the annual Pasadena municipal picnic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In conservative, dignified Pasadena, Calif.,\u2014a city whose traditional reserve is normally broken only once annually by the famed New Year\u2019s Day \u201cTournament Of Roses”\u2014a tawny-complexioned mother of two broke the tranquility ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[455,18929,18930,18903,18904,18901,18902,18899,18935],"class_list":["post-39143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-jet","tag-jet-magazine","tag-joan-r-williams","tag-joan-roberta-williams","tag-joan-williams","tag-pasadena","tag-rose-parade","tag-tournament-of-roses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52863,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39143\/revisions\/52863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}