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Jayne Kennedy
Jayne Kennedy Overton (née Harrison; October 27, 1951) is an American television personality, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder and sports broadcaster. She won a 1982 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture award for her performance in the 1981's film ''Body and Soul'' co-starring alongside her then-husband Leon Isaac Kennedy. She won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Producer along with her current husband Bill Overton for their production of the highly acclaimed staged musical, The Journey of the African American. She is also an Emmy Award winner for her coverage of the Rose Parade and was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the news feature on soldiers on the DMZ in South Korea for NBC’s Speak Up America in 1980. Ebony Magazine announced as “One of the 20 Greatest Sex Symbols of the 20th Century,” and in the 80s, Coca Cola USA named Jayne Kennedy “The Most Admired Black Woman in America”.
==Early life==
Born Jayne Harrison in Washington, D.C., to machinist Herbert Harrison and his wife, Virginia. While still in high school, she was crowned Miss Ohio USA in 1970 (she was the first African American woman to win the title), and was one of the 12 semi-finalists in the Miss USA Universe 1970 pageant. It was rare for an African American woman at that time to be in the contest.. Jayne also represented Wickliffe High School at the American Legion’s Girls State mock-government program and was elected as a senator to the American Legion’s Girls Nation program in Washington D.C. where she won the office of Vice President of the United States and was sworn into office by then VP Spiro T. Agnew.
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