Black women who could not attend her schools could learn the Walker hair care method through a course by mail.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

The first Barbie wore a black and white swimsuit and had her hair in a ponytail.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

They accused her of straightening black women's hair to make it look like white women's hair.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

She then started her own business of developing and selling hair-care products for black women.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He was a big, old black man with fuzzy gray hair.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He was a big,old black man with fuzzy gray hair.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Hundreds,and later thousands, of black women learned her hair-care methods.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It's a statue of a woman with white robes and long hair. Her arms are thrust high into the sky, and she holds aloft a giant black bug.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10