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London's Afro-Caribbean community set up beauty pageants of their own during the 1960s at a time when mainstream notions of beauty largely shunned dark skin and afro hairstyles. Dan Damon found out more from Ren茅e Mussai, the curator of a new exhibition in London, featuring photographs by the mastermind behind the pageant, Raphael Albert.

(Photo: Miss Black & Beautiful Sybil McLean with fellow contestants, Hammersmith Palais, London, 1972. Credit: Raphael Albert/Autograph ABP. Featured in 'Miss Black and Beautiful' at Autograph ABP Rivington Place, http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/miss-black-and-beautiful)