3 ~ The Supremes

Motown’s first and most commercially sucessful girl group, The Supremes rose from the poverty of Detroit’s Brewster housing project to become Motown’s most consistent hitmakers and the most popular female group of the Sixties.

Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson helped change the public image of African Americans during the civil rights era. The youth of America learned many of its first lessons about racial equality from teen magazines that documented every hyperglamourized move the Supremes made as they released hits like “Where Did Our Love Go,” “Baby Love,” “Come See About Me” and “Stop! In the Name of Love.”

Source: britannica.com & rockhall.com