Thirty to forty percent of advertising in major Black newspapers are for skin lightening products.
Date: 1900
"A Crane and Company ad in Colored American Magazine (1903) promises that use of the company's 'wonderful Face Bleach' would result in a 'peach-like complexion' and 'turn the skin of a black or brown person five or six shades lighter and of a mulatto person perfectly white'" (Glenn, 2008).