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Word: nadinola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...among Negro coeds and career girls to wear their hair "natural" instead of attempting to unkink it by "conking"-rinsing it with lye and binding it with handkerchiefs. Yet for every Negro who flaunts his identity, a hundred try to camouflage it. Advertisements in the Negro magazines still hymn Nadinola skin bleach: "Lightens and brightens skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT THE NEGRO HAS-AND HAS NOT-GAINED | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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