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Jan 10
January
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Teresa Graves
Graves (1948-2002) made television history as the first Black woman to star in her own dramatic TV series when she played undercover police officer Christie Love in Get Christie Love! (1974-1975).1 After achieving success in both comedy (as a regular performer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and drama, she left Hollywood in the mid-1970s to devote herself to her religious faith as a Jehovah's Witness.
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Naomi Sims
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Donyale Luna
Luna (1945-1979) was the first black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue Magazine when, in 1966, she appeared on the cover of British Vogue.
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Bethann Hardison
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