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Haircare Entrepreneur Joe Louis Dudley Sr. Die At 86

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February 18, 2024
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Haircare Entrepreneur Joe Louis Dudley Sr. Die At 86

by Daniel Johnson

February 17, 2024

Dudley built an empire from his and his wife’s kitchen, eventually founding schools that trained generations of cosmetologists.

Joe Louis Dudley Sr., a pioneer in the haircare industry, died on Feb. 8 at the age of 86, leaving behind a legacy of achievements and fond memories. As the New York Times reported, Dudley built an empire from his and his wife’s kitchen, eventually founding schools that trained generations of cosmetologists. Dudley’s business began as a family affair, he stirred the formulas in a steel drum with a large spatula while his wife, Eunice, created the labels and their children screwed the tops on the bottles after the mixtures had cooled and set by the next morning. 

From those humble beginnings, the Dudleys took over S.B. Fuller’s business in Chicago, whose products they sold while in college at North Carolina A&T, before moving their business back to Greensboro and building a plant, which also sold Fuller products. Dudley, like Fuller, would go on to be described as a sales evangelist and was also a man of deep Christian faith, often employing those who had been incarcerated or experienced drug problems. 

Dudley required his employees to open savings accounts and usually opened his sales meetings with repurposed popular songs or jingles. In 2009, while filming his documentary “Good Hair,” comedian Chris Rock journeyed to the Kernersville Dudley factory. While at the factory, the comedian learned about relaxer, a strong hair straightener. The economics of the chemicals shocked him when he learned that a 7,000-pound vat of relaxer was worth around $18,000. Meanwhile, the camera panned to show the Dudley family mansion.

Dudley, named after the Black boxing legend Joe Louis, was born on May 9, 1937, in Aurora, NC, as the fifth of 11 children. He stuttered as a child, which led to him being held back in the first grade as teachers used the acceptable term of the day, calling him “mentally retarded.” His mother, Clara, encouraged her son to “prove them wrong, Joe. Prove them wrong.” A moment that Dudley often recalled, and a motto that drove him throughout his life. Lafayette Jones, the chairman emeritus of the American Health and Beauty Aids Institute, an association of Black manufacturers, told the New York Times that Dudley was “a leader among Black hair care royalty.”

In 1995, Dudley won the Horatio Alger Award, which is an honor given to “leaders who have triumphed over adversity,” according to the organization. The other honorees that year were legendary music producer Quincy Jones, and Don Shula, the longtime head coach of the only undefeated NFL team in history, the 1972 Miami Dolphins. 

Ahead of the recession, in 2007, a section of the Dudley haircare factory that manufactured 90% of its products, suffered a fire. Dudley’s daughter, Ursula Dudley Oglesby, a Harvard-educated attorney, helped the family reorganize the company and she became the president and chief executive of the company, which had become the Dudley Beauty Corp. 

At the time of his death from Parkinson’s Disease, Dudley was still working, and his wife, who also survives him, says that she has no plans to stop working either. In addition to his wife and daughter, Dudley is survived by Joe Louis Dudley Jr., Genea Dudley Gidey, Dudley Sr.’s siblings Elise Little and William, Cornelius, Mardecia, MacArthur and George Dudley and three grandchildren. Dudley and his wife divorced in the year 2000 on amicable terms and remained business partners. 

RELATED CONTENT: Uniting the Black Haircare Industry: One Woman’s Journey to Empower



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