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WHO IS OPHELIA DeVORE?

Intelligent and determined, lovely Ophelia DeVore is the front-ranking international and national champion and promoter of Black models — and the dynamic developer and inspiration of beauty contest queens, cover girls, theatrical celebrities and top personalities of newspapers, radio and television.

In the realm of SOUL, pioneer is her role. Long before Black people — en masses — had enlisted in the "BLACK AWARENESS REVOLUTION" which exploded in the sixties, Miss DeVore was engaged successfully in persuading big business that sales propaganda and advertising are inadequate without the magic of the Black Mystique.

She sold many firms on putting soul into salesmanship. Even when giant corporations were insistent on limiting their use of Black models to those of fair skin, Miss DeVore was able to further the careers of Black girls and women of all shades of skin tones from fair through cafe au lait, through cocoa brown, chocolate and ebony.

Today, Ms. DeVore owns The Columbus Times (a daily newspaper in Columbus, Ga.), publishes The National BLACK MONITOR and is a board chairman of the New Member Committee of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. (NNPA).

[[image - black & white photograph of Dr. Benjamin Glover conferring degree on Ophelia DeVore]]
[[caption]] Dr. Benjamin Glover, President of Allen University, confers Doctorate of Humane Letters on Ophelia DeVore (Mitchell). [[/caption]]

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