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Lencola Sullivan
Miss Arkansas | Class of 2006
Lencola Sullivan of Morrilton, Arkansas, broke many color barriers in Arkansas and became a nationally known public figure.
She won four scholarship pageants from 1977 to 1980 and was the first African American to win those pageants.
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She was Miss Morrilton in 1977, Miss University of Central Arkansas in 1978, Miss White River in 1979, and Miss Arkansas in 1980. In September 1980, Sullivan competed in the Miss America Pageant and won the preliminary swimsuit competition.
Overall, she was the fourth runner-up in the national pageant, the highest placement achieved by an African-American contestant up to that time.
Lencola Orean Sullivan was born on October 29, 1957, to Richard and Macie Sullivan of Morrilton.
She was the oldest of five children. Her father was employed by Missouri Pacific Railroad, and her mother was a school teacher. Sullivan graduated from Morrilton High School in 1975 and received a Bachelor of Science in theatre ar