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Pauline Brown Humphrey
1906–1993
United States
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Pauline Brown Humphrey (née Pauline Robinson, also called Pauline Robinson-Brown; 1906 – March 1993) was an American cosmetologist who started a cosmetology school, a beauty product line, a beauty store chain, and a Women's Army Corps African American beauty shop in Iowa. She sponsored programs that helped students learn cosmetology, and her students worked in beauty shops around the United States.
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