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Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, art and design clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 history.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Laila Haidarali, a historian at Queen’s University, Canada. She is investigating the role of African American women in the fashion and modelling industry, and how they used beauty to shape their public image during the mid-20th century.

• This resource also contains an interview with Laila and offers an insight into careers in African American women’s history.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Laila’s research and challenges them to prepare to interview an African American women in the fashion and modelling industry.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-to-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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