Natural Hair Movement

Black people are being fired and/or asked to change their hair. They are fighting for this because black people are dress coded or asked to change their hairstyles just because they are black. They are tired of this because it’s not fair for them to get fired for having a different hairstyle.

What cause do they fight for and why:

An Event They Were Involved in:

When the EEOC was founded fifty-five years ago, the federal government’s primary concern was that black people be granted equal access to public workplaces. It didn’t foresee that black hair would need equal access as well. The first natural hair discrimination cases wouldn’t appear until the next decade. In the 1976 case of Jenkins v. Blue Cross Mutual Hospital Insurance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a race discrimination lawsuit against an employer for bias against afros.