Freddye Scarborough Henderson (1917–2007) was an American business woman and travel agent known for pioneering travel agencies geared towards African-Americans. Henderson was born in Franklinton, Louisiana, on February 18, 1917 and died on January 19, 2007. She earned a B.S. in home economics from Southern University in 1937 and was the first African American to earn a degree in fashion merchandising from New York University in 1950. She married Jacob R. Henderson in Georgia in 1941. From 1944 to 1950 Henderson owned a dress shop in Atlanta. In 1950 Henderson became a fashion editor for the Associated Negro Press, and had a fashion column which was syndicated in many black newspapers in America.
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1917
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2007 (aged 89)
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