Afro
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The afro is a hair style created by combing out natural growth of afro-textured hair, or specifically styled with chemical curling products by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair. The ha
Musician Billy Preston with an afro in 1974
Angela Davis (center, no glasses) enters Royce Hall at UCLA for her first philosophy lecture in October 1969.
The Jackson 5 sporting afros in 1976
A young girl wearing a hairstyle of several sections of hair bound with elastics, a style called afro puffs
Kinky hair
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Kinky hair is a human hair texture prevalent in the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, Micronesia, Torres Strait Islands, and Tasmania, along with the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and
Afro
…The afro is a hair style created by combing out natural growth of afro-textured hair, or specifically styled with chemical curling products by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair. The hairstyle can be created by combing…
Woman from the island of Nosy Be, in Madagascar, c. 1868
Papua New Guinean women with kinky hair
Successful entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker invented a method that relaxed textured hair. Photo taken c. 1914.
Civil rights activist Angela Davis wearing an Afro in 1973