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Ericka Dunlap

1981–

United States

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Ericka Dunlap (born December 29, 1981) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Orlando, Florida, who was named Miss Florida 2003 and subsequently crowned Miss America 2004. She was the first African American woman to be crowned Miss Florida in the Miss America pageant's 81-year history. Until the crowning of Paris Richardson as Miss Florida 2025, Dunlap was the only African American woman in the pageant's history to have been crowned Miss Florida.

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