Complex sentence: J. Morris Anderson first created and produced the Miss Black America Pageant on August 17,1968, it was a local Philadelphia area pageant to protest the lack of black women in the Miss America pageant.
Split into simpler sentences: J. Morris Anderson first created and produced the Miss Black America Pageant on August 17,1968. It was originally a local Philadelphia area pageant to protest the lack of black women in the Miss America pageant.