311:, Brandford Models. Watson taught etiquette and charm school courses at the agency's affiliated modeling school. Edward Brandford founded an advertising agency, Brandford Advertising, that was marketed towards companies that wished to appeal to Black consumers in 1948. Watson ran the modeling agency after 1949, when Brandford's attention had become more divided. She had renamed the agency Barbara Watson Models by 1954, and continued to serve as Director until 1956, when she closed both the agency and its affiliated modeling school.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs. After Senate confirmation, she held this office from August 12, 1968, until November 1974. She was both the first black Assistant Secretary of State and the first woman to serve in this post. In 1974, she received
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Fordham University; Barnard College; the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies; Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe; and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.
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Outstanding Management in Foreign Affairs in 1974, Watson was the recipient of seventeen other awards from varied organizations, and was decorated as a Commander of the National Order of the Republic of the Ivory Coast.
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Barbara Mae Watson died at of pneumonia at George Washington Hospital in
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Department of State under Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
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