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A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance” is indeed a very fine book, a “vibrant, deeply researched biography” of the only ...
In a short twenty-year span, A’Lelia Bundles has written four biographies that document her larger-than-life, from rags-to-riches ancestors.
The comb is heated and used to press and temporarily straighten kinky hair. 1900s: Madame C.J. Walker develops a range of hair-care products for black hair. She popularizes the press-and-curl style.
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