Mary Cowser Alexander, a small yet recognizable figure of Black history, has died at age 90. The educator was notably the first Black woman to model in a Coca-Cola ad in 1955. Alexander ...

I’ll never forget that.” Mary Cowser Alexander died last Thursday from a heart attack, her son said, after years of suffering from scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease. “It’s a slow ...

The archivists quickly got in touch with the woman in Ocala. In August, 73-year-old Mary Cowser Alexander - originally from Ball Play - was feted by the World of Coke as the first black woman to ...

Coke representatives were on the Atlanta campus, and Alexander - then 21 and known as Mary Cowser - was firmly instructed by her dorm mother to attend the interview session. The dorm mother had ...