Julia Coston published the first fashion magazine for Black women, ' Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion in 1891.' Coston was born in 1863 on Ringwood's Farm in Warrenton, Virginia. Her family migrated from their southern plantation home to Washington, D.C., following the Civil War. In Washington, she spent much of her postbellum childhood in school, […]

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