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Before Michelle Obama, There was Eunice W. Johnson

Long before Michelle Obama strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day in Isobel Toledo's shimmering day dress and coat or graced the cover of Vogue, another Chicago woman demonstrated how formidably fashionable black women can be. Eunice W. Johnson was the business-minded fashion wizard who married haute couture and blackness when Bobby Kennedy was only musing about America one day electing a black president. Johnson, who with her late husband, John H. Johnson, started a publishing empire in 1942 with a $500 loan, became a fashion icon who oversaw the traveling Ebony Fashion Fair ...

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