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The 100 Negroes Who Do Most To Build Philadelphia Color Magazine, February 1950. Ira James Kohath Wells (1898–1997), founder of Color magazine, was born in Tamo, Arkansas. He earned a business degree from Lincoln University in 1923, where he co-founded the Colored Student Movement and joined the Student Anti-Lynching delegation to President Warren Harding. -
Christine Moore Howell and her sister, Bessie with two men in front of Christine Vanity Parlor. Christine Moore Howell (1899–1972) and her sister Bessie Moore (1897–1922) were prominent Princeton residents. They appear in an undated photograph with two unidentified men on the stoop of Howell's business, Christine Vanity Parlor, on Spring Street in Princeton borough. The building owned by their father, William Moore (b. 1867) who, according to the 1910 U.S. Census, owned a retail clothing business. Bessie, 25, a nurse , died of pneumonia in October 1922 at Douglas Hospital in Philadelphia. Just six months earlier, she had been granted a divorce from a brief six-month marriage to a Mr. Simerson that had taken place two years prior (Atlantic City Gazette-Review 1922).