“After speaking before a statewide convocation of demonstration club members in North Carolina in 1923, one agent noted approvingly that there was ‘not an ear-bob [earring] nor a plucked eyebrow among ’em…. Guess they get their plucking exercises with the broilers,’ referring to their work in the chicken coop.”
— From “Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South” by Blain Roberts (2014)