A Black History of Style

Why do so many black people take pride in their clothes? How have black people shaped and contributed to fashion?

(Black History, black history timelines, US history, black american history, black history stories, black history month, slavery, fashion week, Met Gala, 1735 South Carolina Negro Act, Tignon Law, Stylin: African American Expressive Culture From Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit, Frederick Law Olmstead, Monica L Miller, Slaves to Fashion:Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, Frederick Douglass, George Washington, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Heckley, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln Assasination, Slavery in New York, New York History, New York Slavery History, church, black church, Mary Church Terrell, Zip Coon, Long Tail Blue, Minstrel Shows, Worlds Fair, Paris, Jack Johnson, Mann Act, Mae Reeves, Mildred Blount, Black Women church hats, Ann Lowe, Aretha Franklin funeral, Zelda Wynn Valdes, Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Dorothy Dandridge, Mae West, Ella Fitzgerald, Wesley Tann, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Dillard University ,HBCU history, HBCU dress codes, Fisk University, Booker T Washinton, civil rights movement, civil rights marches, Tracy Reese, Kevan Hall, Tanisha C Ford, Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul, Kente Cloth, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana, Black Panther Party, jeans, denim, Stevie Wonder, soul train, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Pam Grier, Chaka Kahn, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and The City, Michael Jordan, Andre Leon Talley, Willi Donnell Smith, Patrick Kelly, Daniel Ray, Dapper Dan, Harlem, Boutique, 1980s drug trade, pimping, sporting men, pimp fashion, Mike Tyson, Mitch Green, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel, Hip Hop, Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Salt N Peppa, TLC, Donyale Luna, Donna Summer, Millie Jackson, Florence Joyner, SWV, Cheryl Coko Gamble, Dana Owens, Queen Latifah, Living Single, Andre 3000, Thats So Raven, Tina Knowles, Tina, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Memoir, Kanye West, Ice Cube, Bill Cosby, Pound Cake, sagging pants, Pants on The Ground, Fashion Bomb Daily, Claire Sulmers, Obama era, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Johnny Silvercloud, Journal of Consumer Culture, consumerism, Hoochie aesthetic, Tyler The Creator, Pharrell, Misa Hylton, June Ambrose, Law Roach, Telfar, Brandon Blackwood, Laquan Smith, Hanifa, Doechii, Rihanna)

0:00— Intro
0:30— Enslavement
9:20— Elizabeth Keckley
10:32— Dressing Like Freedmen
16:24— The Great Migration
22:05— Mid-20th Century Designers and The Zoot Suit
25:13— 1950s-1960s
30:19— 1970s-1980s
33:28— Dapper Dan and The Rise of Hip Hop Fashion
40:15— The Late 90s-2000s Luxury and Consumerism
44:30— Sagging Pants
45:54- The Mid-2000s and The Obama Era
49:59— Style Expectations
51:56— 2010s-Modern Era

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