Mid-South Memories Sept. 16

Dave Darnell/The Commercial Appeal files Miss Black America back in Memphis Miss Black America, Claire Ford, was welcomed home at Memphis International Airport amid cheers, banners and waving signs by hundreds of well wishers from politicians to preschoolers on Sept. 16, 1977. She won the title of Miss Black America 1977-78 in a nationally televised special in Santa Monica, Calif. She is ...