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Kentucky State Colored Beauticians Association [Sarah E. Thomas]

The first annual meeting of the Kentucky State Colored Beautician's Association was held in Lexington, KY, in 1937. Mrs. Sarah E. Thomas of Louisville was named president. Her beauty shop was located at 703 W. Walnut Street in Louisville, and she was manager of Madam C. J. Walker Beauty College at 707 1/2 W. Walnut, according to the 1937 Caron's Louisville (Kentucky) City Directory. For more see "Heads KY Beauticians," Baltimore Afro-American, 10/23/1937, p. 8.

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NKAA Source: Caron's Louisville (Kentucky) city directory (annual)
NKAA Source: The Afro-American (newspaper)

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NKAA Entry:  Kentucky Congress of Barbers and Beauticians

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“Kentucky State Colored Beauticians Association [Sarah E. Thomas],” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed April 2, 2023, http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2392.

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