17 September 1983 Posted on September 16, 2015 by Staff Vanessa Williams is crowned as the first black Miss America. Famous Words of Inspiration..."I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare." Dwight Eisenhower — Click here for more from Dwight Eisenhower Related posts: 26 September 1983 26 September 1983 25 October 1983 18 February 1983 8 March 1983 23 March 1983 18 April 1983 18 April 1983 24 July 1983 21 July 1983