“The Afro caught everybody off guard,” he told Ebony magazine in 1970. “Even Black barbers and beauticians in America were caught lacking the knowledge as well as the desire to style a decent Afro.”

I loved, LOVED afros. I never wanted them to fall out of style.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/style/willie-lee-morrow-dead.html

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In the Army my best friend and I had hair longer than regulation. So we had “white Afros”. We’d wear stocking caps at night to pack it down to regulation length during the day, then picked it out at night.