Inspiring Beauty

by Chicago History Museum

Book Overview

The Ebony Fashion Fair began in 1958, and over the next 50 years the traveling fashion show blossomed into an American institution that raised millions for charity and helped Johnson Publishing Company reach audiences. Show organizers overcame racial prejudice to bring the pinnacle of Europe's premier fashion to communities that were eager to see, in real time and space, a new vision of black America that was the hallmark of Ebony and Jet magazines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913820377
• ISBN13: 9780913820377
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Ingram
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"