Without Naomi Sims, There Would Be No Naomi Campbell

On March 30, 1948, <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/historyofus/teachers/pdfs/segment13-2.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A. Phillip Randolph went to D.C. to meet</a> with President Harry S. Truman on behalf of the <a href="https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20578#:~:text=The%20Committee%20Against%20Jim%20Crow,the%20United%20States%20armed%20forces." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training African Americans</a>. Randolph told the President that Black Americans would not continue to serve in a segregated U.S. Army, laying the foundation for military desegregation. Just under 900 miles away in Oxford, Mississippi, Elizabeth Sims was giving birth to her youngest child, a baby girl who would eventually desegregate another quintessential American institution — the beauty industry. her name was Naomi Ruth Sims. <a href="https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/without-naomi-sims-there-would-be-no-naomi-campbell-bd2266b48e1d">Read More</a>