We happened to come across, on a Smithsonian Insitution webpage dedicated to the History of the United States, the history of the Crown of Miss America 1951, which told us about an extraordinary Basque-American woman. Yolande Betbeze was born in Alabama in 1929.  She grew up in a strict Catholic household of Basque descendants, was … Continue reading Yolande Betbeze, the “Basque spitfire”, a “revolutionary woman” who was Miss America