Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

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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.

Director

Cheri Gaulke

Writer

Sue Mayberry

Language

English

Top Cast

Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard

Alma Thomas (voice)

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