I remember watching this pageant on TV, and I just love that part when Erica Harold tries to crown Erica Dunlap! That's priceless! I was glad she won!

she is my homeroom and English teacher this year

This made my heart light up so much! I couldn't help but cry tears of joy for her. I love to see people happy (dreams can come true)

Beautiful moment when her parents received her at the end of the run way..

This was my all time FAVORITE Miss America pageant! I still remember this like it was yesterday. This was when I knew I wanted to compete in pageants one day. After I watched her win, I started working on my Gifted & Talented project the very next day and it was about the Miss America pageant. LOL

I can watch this over & over again & I will always smile & laugh over Ericka Dunlap's reaction 2 being crowned Miss America 2004.

She was so surprised and excited, A great reaction. She was beautiful and talented. Ms. Hawaii was so beautiful also. Thanks for the post.

What a way to make her crowning moment memorable!!!

Seriously this is probably the most honest and genuine reaction you will ever find....if the word "glee" could be put into a video it would be this moment

I love to see someone truly appreciate something they worked so hard for but truly didn't think/believe it was theirs until it happened. This is true gratuity for her moment. Makes me happy for her all over again and everytime I see it. She truly reveled in this moment and the suprise was priceless! GO GIRL!

I could not help but cry inside when I saw Erica's parents come on the stage. I imagine how proud they were that day of their daughter.

she is the sweetest person you will ever meet.. she does so much in my state regarding the state pageant, even though she doesnt live there!! she deserved the title and to any racist people.. you dont know anything about her and where she is from. she is a wonderful woman and will go far in anything she hopes to do.

what a stunning woman. beautiful in that yellow gown and a wonderful Miss America. thsnks Eric

I love her reaction!!! She seems so down to earth and real!

Awwww she was so happy!!

The very best edition of all Miss America pageant and Ericka deserves the title and the prize. Her priceless reaction is so much natural and awesome, why not because of the scholarship. What i like in this edition is that all candidates are friendly and not ao competing with each other. The organization in that year, the host and the format are amazing. And that is why this is the best!

what a gorgeous woman. Wow.

wow what a gorgeous beauty.

She looked so beautiful as she took her walk especially when she put the yellow rose in her head.

Best reaction ever! Priceless!

One of my favorite Miss Americas! ❤️

Most hilarious crowning moment ever!!!! But let's be honest people, if you had just won a huge scholarship like that, wouldn't you be freaking out like that too? :D

i can watch this 10000000000 zillon times and always seem like the first time amazing win must watch*i dont even know if thats a number but oh well*

LOVE that rose in her hair! go ericka!

She’s adorable! What a crowning moment 😍😍😍

yellow is the color of joy

Her Crowning Is Undoubtedly The Funniest,Greatest Crowning EVER! Her Reactions and What she Said Was Great!!

She sounds like Halle Berry when she won her Academy Award. Their voices sound similar.

I know that feeling of winning something grand.. Won a trip to any Caribbean destination in 2002 and remember when I was called I dropped the phone and started running.

This is by far my favorite reaction.

the one year I watched. I remember Ericka was poised and together........until this moment. It was funny, genuine and entertaining, the entire thing.

I also thought Miss Maryland looked like Michelle Obama's! Her reaction is hilarious. I'm really enjoying watching Ericka on The Amazing Race, it was fun to see this!

I love her reaction! It is one of the most memorable. The other would be Miss USA 1982 Terri Utley.

Very deserving

I knew her in High School. Very smart woman.

Ericka's reaction was priceless and when she was announced the New Miss America the former Miss America has to crown her and quite couldn't get it done initially because Ericka was just besides herself.....soo funny (but very genuine).

One of my very favorite Miss Americas! ❤️❤️❤️

So beautiful, so graceful, so poised- until they called her name!!!!!! Then all bets were off!!!!!!!

I can watch this crowning anytime..I'm excited to see her reavtion

Awesome moment in time. She is so sweet & I ran into her &her mom several times @ regalia in Orlando , where she got all her gowns. She was very supportive @ our muss gay Florida america pageants for female impersonation & came to watch her year prior to winning this. So much for being conservative! She was done up by a strong group of drag queens from orlando that winning year! Head to toe!

Pure, unadulterated joy....

i love her

omg! i love her reaction the best one ever

Great reaction of any pageant winner.

The greatest Miss America Crowning ever

Una de las reacciones más hermosas de todos los tiempos en los concursos de belleza !❤

It is with sadness that I inform you that Florida's first Miss America, Eva Leanza Cornett (known by her middle name), Miss America 1993, passed away recently from injuries resulting from a fall in her home in Jacksonville, Florida. She was 49 years old. Condolences to her family.

How come she got no flowers? "I;m going to Disneyworld!" LOL!

Best moment of the decade.....

Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa! I remember this crowning moment sooooo well! That Erica! She pretty much cheered like Quasimodo in "Hunchback", if you ask me! I just LOVE this crowning moment! : )

stunning beauty wow.

hilarious! she even picked up her earring.. haha

This video is very motivating to watch.......

Ms Erika knows me we worked together and she knows me

Such a sweet genuine spirit! Great reaction! Great gal! Well deserved!

I just loved Erika

The crowd really liked Ms Maryland that year.

Who's here after watching thw crowning of Miss Teen USA 2020?? 😂

She's adorable

Wow two sunshine states!!! Love them both!!!

I love miss Hawaii Reaction! she seems so sweet

Not sure if she was the leader, or favorite going into the finals, but what she did live that night, winning talent and eveing gown sealed it for her. I thing Maryland was the strongest one going into the finals.

Don't forget about the 1991 winner Marjorie Vincent, and the 1994 winner Kimberly Aiken.

She looks like a dark skin Beyonce to me just stunning black beauty!

If the program is called Miss America (current year), how come it most times always airs in September of the previous year? Like was there some false advertisement tactic I missed?

Big moment for her

I love her...from Thailand

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now she is a happy queen up and down

This reminds me of when Fantasia won American Idol. Love these moments.

She could have been a little more excited! LOL!!!

can be competitive with miss botswana 1999

Oh lighten up. I'd be saying that in my head if i was trying to crown her.

*Officer...................................There she is*

Me winning something

I’m so glad they don’t shove the mic in their face right after winning anymore. Let them have their moment to freak lol

the young slim black women can win mainstream beauty contests👠🇺🇸!

She is able to turn her scholarship into cash at the end of her reign and she earns money for every one of her appearances so that at the end of her reign she earns about $250,000 to $300,000 after taxes.

Did you hear the Boo's when Miss Maryland was named 3rd runner up!

i luv her

At least she looks happy and excited to win. Now days they all look like they'd rather be eating.

she dropped her earring! That was THE BEST!!!!!

She was the 7th black miss america. Marjorie Vincent, 1991; Kimberley Aiken, 1995, Erika Harold, 2004 and Erika Dunlop 2004

What is the difference between miss USA and miss America? Is this includes south central and North America?

she's the best Miss America titleholder ever!

she's so natural .. liked her reaction lol

She lost all that poise in Czech Republic when someone tried to take her beer LOL!

YAY! I went to both High School and College with her!!!!

2:09 priceless moments

This made me cry. The first black woman and it was only 3 years ago. I wish I could remember seeing it when it first aired. Is that Tyrese singing "There She Is, Miss America"?

Uhm Actually there is. Miss Universe 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam from Trinidad and Tobago and the next year Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana was crowned as Miss Universe 1999 by Miss Universe 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam

Actually the 8th/9th whichever way you want to see it. There was Vanessa Williams and Suzette Charles who were crowned in 1984.

By far she the only African American to won the miss America pageant

This is the only miss America from before 2008 that is on KZfaq

Erika Harrold, the 2003 miss america also has black blood- her mother is black and her father is white

That's not quite what I was getting at, she just has the happy-surprised look that seems more apropos to getting to the final 5...not for getting picked off first. But you are right, 5th of 51 is huge.

i just meet her today at my class

I would have just handed her the crown. Damn stay still

Because she was happy? Duh!! And she didn't come in last she came in fifth out of 51. That is huge!!

Nice her parents on runway.