Long before the Met Gala celebrated Black style, before the natural hair movement of the 2010s championed kinks, coils, and curls, before policies like the CROWN Act, and before dark-skinned Black ...
Ophelia DeVore Mitchell, a model, businesswoman and pioneer in the "black is beautiful" movement, has placed her papers at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).