1969 - Black Models Grace Fashion Magazine Covers for the 1st Time
(L to R)
Jane Hoffman - Cosmo - June, 1969
Daphne Maxwell - Glamour - October, 1969*
Elizabeth of Toro - Harper's Bazaar - November, 1969
Jolie Jones - Madamoiselle - March, 1969
It's funny how much things change and how much they stay the same. I wonder what kind of future I would have imagined had I been coming of age in the late 1960s.
* Katiti Kironde was technically the first black wman to appear on the cover in August, 1968 but she was a college student and not a model.