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Gail Fisher
August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000)
The first Black woman to win a Primetime Supporting Actress Emmy
Gail Fisher with an American actress born on August 18th 1935 in the city of Orange New Jersey .
In 1971 she won the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress in a television series. In 1973 Gail Fisher won the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a television series drama for “MANNIX”. She was the first black woman to win either. In 2969 she won the NAACP image award.
Fisher was married and divorced three times. She had two daughters, Samara and Jolie, from her 1964 marriage to John Levy. Her marriage to Wali Muhammad (Walter Youngblood), famed cornerman to Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali, ended in divorce when he changed religions. Wali was also an assistant minister to Malcolm X at Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7. Jet magazine reported in its July 26, 1973 issue that she also was married to Robert A. Walker, a businessman from Los Angeles.
Gail Fisher passed away on December 2, 2000 in Clover City California from kidney failure ,12 hours later her brother Clifton died from heart failure .