Dorothea Towles Church, a pioneering professional black model on the fashion runways of French couture designers in Paris, has died at 83. Ms. Church died July 7 in New York City, where she had ...

Dorothea Towles Church, the first professional African American model to walk the fashion runways of French couture designers in Paris, died July 7. She was 83. Church died at St. Luke’s ...

A museum exhibit honors her style. Dorothea Towles Church, the first professional black model to walk the fashion runways of French couture designers in Paris, died July 7. She was 83. Mrs. Church ...

Dorothea Towles Church, the first successful black model in Paris, who discovered personal liberation on the runways of Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1950s, died July 7 in Manhattan.

This week: Ted Grant, Ta Mok, Dorothea Towles Church, Sir Peter Masefield and Maurice Bevan. Militant who has died aged 93. Ted Grant was the founder and ideological force behind Militant ...

Born Dorothea Towles in Texarkana, Texas, Church has died at 83. The seventh of eight children in a farming family, she studied biology at college and planned to go into medicine, but when her ...