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

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

20 min

2021

NR

Documentary

100%

User Score

Overview

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.

Movie cast

Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard

Alma Thomas (voice)

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