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(Bobby), Gloria, and twins Billy and Barbara. In 1960, Bryant married Bob Green (1931–2012), a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children: Robert Jr. Īnita Bryant with a sailor during a Bob Hope USO show on the USS Ticonderoga in 1965 She sang occasionally on radio and television, and was invited to audition when Arthur Godfrey's talent show came to town.īryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958, and was second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America pageant (held September 6, 1958) at age 18, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
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She was singing onstage at the age of six, at local fairgrounds in Oklahoma. When Bryant was two years old, her grandfather taught her to sing " Jesus Loves Me". Army and her mother went to work as a clerk for the Tinker Air Force Base, taking her children to live with their grandparents temporarily. After her parents divorced, her father went into the U.S. She lives in her home state of Oklahoma.īryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, the daughter of Lenora A.
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Bryant never regained her former prominence and filed for bankruptcy twice. This, as well as her later divorce with Bob Green, damaged her financially. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on J(prior to Dade County restoring the ordinance in 1998), it permanently damaged her public image, leading her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission being terminated three years later. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she had promoted. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. In 1977, she ran the " Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the U.S. She is also the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and was a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission. She scored four "Top 40" hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including " Paper Roses" which reached No. Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer who later became famous for her anti-gay activism.