Black History

"Did you know that in late 18th century Louisiana, black and multiracial women were ordered to cover their hair in public?"

It's Black History Month.
If you look back on the atrocities done to the black race, it will somber you up.
Although a lot of things were (well, are) done to bring down our race, and break our spirits, we always find a way to come through the other side!
One example I want to share today is a law that forbid black women from wearing their hair out.
Although we were suppose to be second class citizens, we sure didn't act/look like it!
Wearing elaborate hairdos, with jewels and feathers, we looked more like queens than anything else.

there was in fact a “law” of sorts that demanded women of color in Louisiana to cover their hair with a fabric cloth starting in 1789 as a part of what was called the Bando du buen gobierno (Edict for Good Government).  What these rules were meant to do was try to curtail the growing influence of the free black population and keep the social order of the time. The edict included sections specifically about the changing of certain “unacceptable” behaviors of the free black women in the colony including putting an end to what he and others believed to be the overly ostentatious hairstyles of these ladies which drew the attention of white men, and the jealousy of white women. These rules are called the “Tignon Laws” A tignon (pronounced “tiyon”) is a headdress. -blackgirllonghair.com 

 The Tignon Law was made to diminish our beauty, but we only tied the scarves in such a way to resemeble crowns.