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...that light-skinned immigrants in the U.S. earn more money on average than darker-skinned immigrants confirmed what many African Americans have privately known for years: that there are benefits simply for being a minority who is fairer. Traditionally, "beauty barriers" have almost exclusively been broken by lighter-skinned blacks - from the earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black. She opened...
...Institute of Technology in 1966 and decided to try modeling to support herself. After most agencies turned her down, proclaiming her skin color "too dark," she forged out on her own, landing a photo spread with the New York Times by contacting a photographer directly. At a time when "black is beautiful" became a rallying cry for many black people, she helped illustrate this mantra for people of all skin colors. (See TIME's special report "Fashion's New Attitude...
...doing so, Sims made it possible for brown girls everywhere to embrace their inner black beauty. We all know that junior high can be rough, but just imagine being a nearly 6-ft.-tall girl with both braces and glasses growing up in a place like Texas, where fellow Texan Farrah Fawcett, with her silky blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and golden tan, remains the standard of beauty...
...eyes, and I've never relied on the sun to keep my God-given tan intact. But thankfully, I was fortunate to have a mother who made me - braces, glasses and all - feel beautiful, even when most boys and magazines around me did not. She introduced me to countless black beauties who did not look like Farrah, but who too were beautiful...
Read TIME's 1969 article "Black Look in Beauty...