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Helen Marie Williams Jackson (September 16, 1935 – July 26, 2023) was an American fashion model, and one of the first African American models to be featured in mainstream publications of her time. Career
Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model. [1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America.
Patricia Cleveland (born June 23, 1950) is an American fashion model who initially attained success in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the first African-American models within the fashion industry to achieve prominence as a runway model and print model.
Marsha A. Hunt – African-American model, singer, novelist, and actress. Beverley Heath Hoyland – Jamaican-British model and businesswoman. Whitney Houston - second African-American model to appear on the cover of Seventeen (November 1981) and first black singer to appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar (January 1996).
The fashion tour was a pioneer in using African-American models on the runway and helped highlight the works of African-American designers. Building on her difficulties in finding cosmetics suited to the skin tones of her models, Johnson created Fashion Fair Cosmetics in 1973 as a line of makeup that would be sold in leading department stores. [4]
Johnson's company, with its Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951) magazines, was among the most influential African-American business in media in the second half of the twentieth century. [4] In 1982, Johnson became the first African American to appear on the Forbes 400. In 1987, Johnson was named Black Enterprise Entrepreneur of the year.
Carter Goodwin Woodson (1875-1950), African-American historian. Bettmann - Getty Images In case you didn’t already know, the creator of Black History Month was historian Carter G. Woodson.
Anna Short was born in 1897 in the Wallace area of Marlboro County, South Carolina.. The Short family lived on the Pegues Place plantation as sharecroppers. [1] She grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, where she had three daughters and two sons.