- Accomplished opera singer, political activist, and lecturer.
- Daughter and granddaughter both also named Yolande.
- She was a volunteer with the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. She took part in a protest against Woolworth's policy of having segregated lunch counters.
- Miss America 1951.
- She refused to be a promotional model of bathing suits by Catalina, a major pageant sponsor.
- Her father's family was of Basque heritage.
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