Naomi Sims

Model, Author

1948 – 2009

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Who was Naomi Sims?

Naomi Ruth Sims was an American model, businesswoman and author, She was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, and widely credited as being the first African-American supermodel.

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Born
Mar 30, 1948
Oxford
Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Westinghouse High School
  • New York University
  • Fashion Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • Mississippi
  • Oxford
Died
Aug 1, 2009
Newark

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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