Feb 13, 2015
Post-Civil War Hairstyles
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born a slave in Mississippi. She made her fame as a journalist in Memphis, where she began a long career of reporting on lynchings in the South and elsewhere [mnopedia].
Sources: [Google Cultural Institute] [Gutenberg] [Wikimedia] [NYPL]
You can find digital scans of her writings at: [University of Chicago Library]
This amazing blog. It’s a history of hairstyles of the African diaspora, and the stories of those who wore them. Currently focusing on Reconstruction-era figures for Black History Month, but freely flings itself across centuries and continents.
