In my case hair cut were free after the first one. Understand that I was my mom’s first child, Jesse Columbus James, born in 1923, and I had a head of what they called “handsome black curls.” You might imagin’ how much attention I got, but my mother got most of the benefit with friends ooh-ing over my black curls. Now my dad had a “thing” about long curls on a boy. In those days (the mid-1920s) my family di’n’t have a camera, so we only had word of mouth from relatives to prove it, but dad din’n’t need such proof. He could for his self what I looked like. JESSE C’S FIRST HAIR CUT One day he took me to Mr. Peterson’s barbershop in […]
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