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Helen Williams, a Top Model in a Segregated Era, Is Dead at 87

She was one of the most photographed Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, seen mainly in magazines, like Ebony and Jet, aimed at the Black middle class.

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Black People, Deaths (Obituaries), Fashion and Apparel, Models (Professional), New Jersey, Race and Ethnicity, Segregation and Desegregation
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