The Black Woman's Forgotten Fight Against The Laws That Banned Her Hair

There are many reasons why it's not "just hair" for Black women. Before the "Black is Beautiful" and natural hair movement emerged during the 1960s, anti-Black hair sentiment in Western society existed for centuries, most contentiously in colonial Louisiana when a series of laws actually banned Creole women from displaying their hair in public.

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The Black Woman's Forgotten Fight Against The Laws That Banned Her Hair