Are you possibly Sicilian. My BIL was and quite dark skinned. Passed away several years ago in his 70’s and still had a FULL head of black hair no grey...Loved him very much and a sweeter guy your ever meet...he once said the only soap he used to wash his hair was a bar of Ivory..
No, mostly Neapolitan ancestry on my father’s side. Mother’s side is (Quaker) German, Irish, Dutch. I am darker than the average German or Brit, but not that dark skinned really. Just that I know in many parts of the US in the early 20th century, Italians were considered “other” than white.