As Miss Alabama 2024, Stockard is one of 52 women vying to become Miss America 2025. The title comes with $50,000 in scholarship money and a yearlong reign. Miss America 2024, Madison Marsh, will ...

The pageant's long history of excluding women of color dates from its beginnings. At some point in the 1930s, it was formalized in the notorious rule number seven of the Miss America rule book.