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The early issues often featured beauties like Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge on its eye-catching covers. Constantly upbeat, like its generic contemporary '' Life '', it gave African Americans a needed psychic boost. For the first time, national corporations featured black models driving cars and drinking soft drinks in the issues of ''Ebony''. One of the co-editors was Hans Massaquoi , author of the autobiography '' Destined To Witness '', a book about his youth in Nazi Germany as a black boy. The book had been on the top of the bestseller list of the German weekly '' Der Spiegel '' for many months. EXTERNAL LINKS
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