Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Name: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Released: 2021-07-15

10.0202120mDocumentary

"An overnight success, 80 years in the making."

Overview

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive n...