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Born August 12, 1923, in Edgefield, SC
Died February 28, 2014, in New York, NY
After her career as a model, Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell paved the way for other models of color when she helped found the Grace Del Marco Agency and the Ophelia DeVore School of Self-Development and Modeling in the late 1940s. She later became a marketing consultant, and in the 1960s created a line of cosmetics. She was the publisher of The Columbus Times, a weekly newspaper in Georgia, and was appointed by President Reagan to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.