Vogue (magazine)

August 1974: Beverly Johnson, photographed by Francesco Scavullo The first Black woman on the cover of American Vogue, eight years after Donyale Luna fronted the British edition. Johnson's agent at the time doubted it would ever happen; she moved to Wilhelmina Cooper's agency, which pushed Scavullo's picture to the editors, and Johnson ran to a newsstand to see it for herself. She went on to front Vogue twice more, so the cover proved to be a beginning rather than a one-off gesture.