[Ads-l] Antedating of "Natural Hair Movement"

[Shapiro, Fred]

natural hair movement (not in OED)

1981 Beulah Smith Hemingway "The Universal Wears Contemporary Clothes": The Works of Gwendolyn Brooks (Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University) 167 (ProQuest)

This verse aptly summarizes the conflict that many black women felt and had to contend with before the natural hair movement became acceptable and popular.

Fred Shapiro



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