African hairstyles reflected tribal customs and traditions. Warriors wore tiny braids, non-warriors shaved their heads, and many tribes dyed their hair red with earth and grease. Hair worn with bone needles, leaves, and headscarves was considered most beautiful. After slavery, certain hairstyles and lighter skin were required to enter schools and businesses in order to look more like white people. In the 1970s, the black is beautiful movement ended when a white actress wore cornrows in a movie, insulting black people.

1. Question and Answer
Samples and Techniques

2. Kim Gillespie
Jean Vortkamp

3. African hairstyles reflected the customs of their
tribe and family traditions. Friends, or enemies,
could find the members of a tribe by the way they
wore their hair. Warriors wore tiny braids, non-
warriors shaved their heads, and many tribes
dyed their hair with red earth and grease. Many
would plait the hair thinly and let it grow long.
Hair that was worn with bone needles, leaves,
and headscarves was considered the most
beautiful hair. African hair was good hair.

5. None of the above
1 to 2 weeks
3 to 5 weeks
11 to 15 weeks
6 to 10 weeks

8. Head wraps
Kerosene
Butter
Bacon grease
All of the above

11. After slavery, you had to have so-called good hair to enter
into certain schools, churches, and businesses. Whites &
Black people with straighter hair & lighter skin would
hang a comb outside a building and if you ran the comb
through your hair and it made a snap noise or you
couldn’t get the comb through your hair, you were not
allowed in the building. They also used the paper bag
test which consisted of placing a brown paper bag next to
your skin and if your skin was darker than the paper bag,
you were not allowed in the building.

13. Hair oil
Steel comb
Hair grower
Vegetable Shampoo
All of the above

14. All of the above
So more black people could get into schools & businesses
So black people could wear more hairstyles
To allow black people to look more like white people
To help stop hair breakage

16. White men told black women that they were
ugly and encouraged them to look like
white women. As black women tried
harder and harder to look like white
women, white men became rich from black
women insecurities. White men sold
bleaching creams and various products to
black people.

17. In the 1940’s men used a chemical called lye to
straighten their hair. The conk was a
hairstyles popular among African-American
men from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. This
hairstyle called for a man with naturally kinky
hair to have it chemically straightened, so that
the newly straightened hair could be styled

19. All of the above
Up-dos
Press and Curl
Braids
Afro

21. In 1979, white actress Bo Derek
appeared in a movie wearing
cornrows, proving that anyone can
wear that hairstyle. Black people
found this insulting and the black is
beautiful movement ended with the
1970’s.

28. Most of the black owned companies sold their businesses to white
companies such as L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, and Alberto-
Culver which are the top 3 sellers of black hair care products.
Soft Sheen Carson, maker of products such as Dark & Lovely,
Let’s Jam, and Optimum is now owned by L’Oreal. However,
Dudley Products, Luster Products, and Bronner Brothers are still
black owned. L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, and Alberto-Culver
have changed some of the previous formulas of black hair care
products. Are the new formulas and products safe for black
women to use or are they causing further breakage? Are white
people still becoming wealthy from black people insecurities?

29. Lots of hair care products contain:
Isopropyl alcohol, propylene glycol,
Polyethylene glycol, Sodium lauryl sulphate
(SLS) & Sodium laureth sulphate, DEA
(diethanolamine), MEA (momoethanolamine)
TEA (triethanolamine), FD & C Colour
pigments, Fragrance, Formaldehyde,
Imidazolidinyl urea & DMDM Hydantoin, and
Parabens (Propyl, Methyl, Butyl, or Ethyl).

30. One of the biggest problems related to
slavery in the US is a lack of knowledge
about slavery. Many call it the hidden
slavery since the enslaved, who are often
slaves from other countries, look and act
like most other people. It is important to
know the figures, signs and symptoms
related to slavery so you can help to stop
it.

31.  You can cut off the relaxed hair and wear a teeny
weeny afro until your hair begins to grows out.
 You can wear braids or locks.
 You can wear your hair in twists. Either twist on a
comb or take two stands of hair and twist them
around each other.
 You can wear a crinkle set or twist out by braiding or
twisting your hair using a little bit of setting lotion.
After a certain amount of time you can remove the
braids or twist and wear the twist out look.
 You can wear flat twist which are basically the same
as cornrows but instead of using three strands of
hair, you use only two.