N ot a m e m b e r ? J o i n at a s so c iate d h a i rp rofe s sio n a ls .c o m 55
1950s 2010s 2000s 2020s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 1940s
1985—Over
50 percent
of barber
students are
female.
2020—Almost
26 percent
(25.6) of
barbers are
women.
1943—Lillian
Beckley Wheeler is
the first Black female
barber in Colorado.
1945—Mollie Edmonds
is the first licensed
female barber in Texas in
1945. In 1951, she opens
Mollie's Barber Shop.
1950s—Lillian Beckley Wheeler
opens Mrs. Wheeler's Barber Shop
in the Dahlia Square Shopping
Center in Denver, Colorado,
once touted as the nation's largest
Black-owned shopping center.
"The Scene at Mrs. Wheeler's Barber
Shop." Denver, CO.
A lady barber cuts a man's hair
in a modern salon.
