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          Ophelia DeVore

          American businesswoman, publisher, and model (1922-2014)

          Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model.[1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States.

          In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America.[2]

          Life

          Emma Ophelia DeVore was born on August 12, 1922, in Edgefield, South Carolina.

          She was one of ten children born to John Walter DeVore and Mary Emma Strother giving Devore a mixed ancestry of German-American, African-American, and Cherokee.[1][2] Her father owned a road contracting business and her mother was an educator and musician.

          Her father mentored her in communicating well with people, as her mother stressed proper education, appearance, and etiquette.

          DeVore attended segregated schools until she was nine, and then moved to Winston-Salem to live with her mother's b