To celebrate Black History Month, we interviewed the great-great-great granddaughter of Nearest Green about her making a bit of her own history as the first Black girl to win the Miss Lynchburg pageant.
It's all just playing dress up with her friends. The Times recently caught up with Miss Lynchburg Allie Byrom to learn what's like to be a small town beauty queen in our newest series, Humans of Lynchburg.