hair_color eye_color birth_place title height ethnicity name nationalcompetition birth_date article_title education birth_name
black brown detroit , michigan , u.s. miss michigan usa 1990 miss usa 1990 6 0 african-american carole gist miss -lrb- 1st runner-up -rrb- usa 1990 -lrb- winner -rrb- miss universe 1990 08 may 1969 carole gist
 cass technical high school northwood university carole anne-marie gist
carole gist

carole anne-marie gist -lrb- born may 8 , 1969 -rrb- is an american tv host , model and first african american woman to win the miss usa title .
gist first won the title of miss michigan usa and went on to win the miss usa crown on march 2 , 1990 in wichita , kansas .
the 1990 pageant had representatives from georgia -lrb- brenda leithleiter -rrb- , alaska -lrb- karin elizabeth meyer -rrb- , kentucky -lrb- tiffany tenfelde -rrb- , south carolina -lrb- gina tolleson , who as 1st runner-up then went on to represent the country at the miss world pageant , winning the title -rrb- and karin hartz of new jersey making up with gist the top 6 finalists .
gist , a detroit native , 20 years old at the time , eventually became first runner-up to mona grudt of norway in the miss universe pageant of that same year .
she was also the first contestant from michigan to win miss usa , and broke the five-year streak of winners from texas .
