ACLU of GeorgiaThe CROWN Act
The CROWN Act was created to ensure protection against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles by extending statutory protection to hair texture and protective styles such as braids, locs, twists, and knots in the workplace and public schools.
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The CROWN Act was created in 2019 by Dove and the CROWN Coalition, in partnership with then State Senator Holly J. Mitchell of California. The CROWN act was created to ensure protection against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles by extending statutory protection to hair texture and protective styles such as braids, locs, twists, and knots in the workplace and public schools.
Hair discrimination often affects people of color and clearly has no basis in professional or academic performance. No person should lose their job or be sent home from school for wearing protective styles or wearing their hair in its natural state.
The most recent federal legislation for the CROWN Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in May 2024, and it has been enacted as law in 27 U.S. states. Statewide legislation has not yet passed in Georgia but has been enacted locally in Atlanta Public Schools, Gwinnett and Clayton counties, and the cities of East Point, South Fulton, and Stockbridge.
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