LC control no. | n 79062720 |
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Personal name heading | Sims, Naomi, 1948-2009 |
Found in | Her All about health and beauty ... 1976. New York times WWW site, Aug. 4, 2009 (in obituary published Aug. 3: Naomi Sims; b. Naomi Ruth Sims, Mar. 30, 1948, Oxford, Miss.; d. Saturday [Aug. 1, 2009], Newark, aged 61; her appearance as the first black model on the cover of Ladies' home journal in Nov. 1968 was a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement; went on to design successful collections of wigs and cosmetics for black women under her name) |