Stephen J. Whitfield, in The South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 1978), Duke University Press, P.O. Box 6697, College Station, Durham, N.C. 27708.
In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) tells of scoring a propaganda success "among the powdered heads of Paris" simply refusing to wear a wig while serving as Ambassador to France from the rebellious American colonies. One and a half centuries later, Black Muslim leader Malcolm X abandoned attempts to tame his kinky red- dish hair...