
#26: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
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How to Straighten Hair Like a White Man
Conking hair was a popular hairstyle for black men from the 1920s to through the 50s. It would make your hair more like a white man's hair instead of what you'd see with a natural black man's hair. The typical formula that they would use is potato starch egg protein and lie relaxer which essentially burns the scalp if with with exposure but it takes normally kinky hair and it straightens it out with a gel like little substance.
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