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Who Was the Inspiration Behind the ‘Gibson Girl’ Illustrations? The Artist Said She Was Every Woman
Charles Dana Gibson’s archetype became the original American “it girl” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and helped ...
City officials declared Jan. 25, her 100th birthday, Betty Lee Ongley Day. “Can you believe that?” Ongley asked, laughing.
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
A newly discovered portrait attributed to Hans Baldung Grien—one of the most important Old Master finds in years—is expected ...
Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the ...
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