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Did Vanessa Williams grow up in a poverty stricken neighborhood or affluent one?
Vanessa Williams was born in The Bronx, New York. A child of music teachers. Her paternal great-great grandfather an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Question: What year did Vanessa Williams win the Miss American pageant?
Self-contained rewrite: What year did Vanessa Williams win the Miss American pageant?