The Barber Behind the Afro Pick and the California Curl — the U.S. Military Hired Him to Teach Its Barbers
He was born to a sharecropper family in Alabama. He opened a barbershop in San Diego, helped put the Afro pick in hands across America, created the California Curl — and then the United States military called him in to teach its own barbers how to cut Black soldiers’ hair. Willie Lee Morrow was born