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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Name: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Director: Cheri Gaulke
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-07-15
Cast: Alfre Woodard

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

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 national attention until she was 80.

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… + more

Release Date

2021-07-15

Year

2021

Duration

20m

Status

Released

Score

10.00

Genres

Documentary

Production

Reel Plan

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Cast

Alfre Woodard

Alma Thomas (voice)