Natural Hair Representation Through The Decades (60S & 70S)

I was looking at this magazine and said what beauty look like, and it was all women that did not look like me with blonde hair, and I was thinking well. If that's what beauty looks like then, where do I fit in hey y'all? Welcome back to my channel today we're going to be exploring how natural hair representation has changed throughout the years. I'Ve been natural for over 5 years, and I love looking back at photos of people proudly rocking their natural hair back back back in the day. It'S something that brings me great joy, so I decided to put together a video that celebrates the beauty of natural hair throughout the decades. Some dates, maybe also, if I'm a little off with some dates that I mentioned in the video. Please charge it to my head and not my heart, also, if you know the correct dates of certain events that I mentioned, please leave them down below in the comments. Ok, so to start we're going all the way back to the 1960s. So at this time there was a rise in black music with Motown leading the packs they had acts like the temptations, the contours, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips, just to name a few, but the list definitely goes on much like today's music, where artists are Very political with their art, the same can be said for a lot of artists. Back in the day in 1968, James Brown released, say hello, I'm black and I'm proud an anthem for black folks to be proud of the way we were created and the song became sort of hailing for a lot of black people. At this time. The civil rights movement was also on the rise being held by the incredible dr. Martin Luther King jr., although started in 1940. It definitely saw one of its heights in the 1960s. Another civil rights movement was starting in the 1960s 1966 to be exact. The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey, Newton and Bobby Seale, and their agenda was simple. They wanted equality for black people economically, socially and politically, during the rise of the Black Panther Party came the rise of the afro. During this time, natural hair became a statement and it said that I'm not conforming to your ideals of beauty, ie European beauty standards simply put it stated, I'm black and I'm proud a lot of people called natural hair, nappy, unprofessional and so much more. So you can understand the significance of the afro during this time. The Afro also became a political statement as well with the majority of the Black Panther Party, opting to sport, the afro. During this time, one of the people sporting, the afro was Angela Davis. Angela Davis is an activist and she rocked her fro proudly that still exists in the Black Panthers are still extremely active than in the Oakland community in communities all over the country. I'M not sure whether you are aware of what is now happening in the Black Panther Party in the kinds of things that members of that party by doing negatory. First of all, if you're going to talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wear devolution who are physically able to organize and physically able to do. Nina Simone was also someone who regularly rocked their natural hair. Very proudly. Nina Simone is a musical genius and she rocked many different natural hairstyles Earth Day. Kid was also someone who often rocked her natural hair. In fact, she made waves when she rocked the natural do for the filming of Batman as she played Catwoman Marcia hunt became the first black woman to appear on the cover of a British high fashion magazine called Queen in 1968, and she was donning her natural hair With Christmas ornaments, as accessories Cicely Tyson also donned her natural hair a lot during this time. But while the afro was becoming legendary, it came to a point where many had to go into hiding and wear disguises that covered their natural hair, because police officers started to target the Afro because they knew most of the people rocking. Their beautiful throws were most likely. Black activists, so this brings me into the 1970s so into the 1970s afro and black hair was seen in a lot of black films. Some like Foxy Brown, Pam Grier, was a huge, huge part of natural hair being displayed in 1970s. As far as black films go, she played a huge major role in that during this time, I also felt like Pam Grier gave natural hair some sex appeal in a way. Most people probably thought natural hair was just a political statement or you were part of a different political party, but Pam Grier was like nope. I'M gon na step in i'ma show y'all how it's done and their natural hair can also be sexy. There'S many different vibes to natural hair and I feel, like Pam Grier, really like, took that under her wings and show people that you can also be sexy. Rocking different kind of natural hairstyles, Pam Grier made other women feel sexy wearing their natural hair as well. And that is why representation is so important in media and television, because you need little girls and young women to see people who look like them. And if we see people who look like this, we have something to inspire too or be inspired by so during the 1970s, a new show aired that changed black music and also change how black hair was perceived. In my personal opinion, the show that I'm talking about is so train, so train debuted in 1971, with host and creator Don Cornelius, so try and give a platform for black artists to perform their art, and it also became sort of a fashion show for artists to Display their personal style and also their personalities, one of the prominent figures in music at that time was Diana Ross. Diana Ross often were many different natural hairstyles, while performing also trained Diana wore an afro on Soul. Train on TV does why I love platforms like Soul Train because they gave a platform to black people to be themselves authentically. You know they don't they didn't have to disguise who they were. He didn't have to disguise how they looked. They were able to freely express themselves so shows, like Soul. Train was very important and monumental, especially at this time once again, representation matters, the 1970s birth, fashionable natural hair. To me, I feel, like the 1970s said, the natural hair can be worn whenever, with whatever it truly was a time that transcended time in a way, because we were coming from the 60s, where I felt like natural hair was such a pivotal, a pivotal statement, saying That I don't have to look like how you think I should I'm gon na be me, and it makes such a broad stance and it also says something deeper. Whereas when we go into the 1970s, I feel, like people felt a little bit more free with your natural hair and kind of felt, a little bit more sexy shots out to Pam Grier, and so many other women, and I felt like it, went from being a Political statement to, yes is a still a political statement, but this is also how I feel and how I choose to express myself. So I feel like the 1970s really birthed that whole fashionable natural hair age, but women weren't the only ones rocking their natural hues. Okay, the mandate as well so panini man, I think the fros are so sexy. You have people from Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire, so many people rock the fro. It was so popular such a popular hairstyle, so natural hair became a way of expressing yourself without having to say not a single word. You knew what was going on when I came stepping through okay. So during this time I feel like I froze made black people feel powerful, we're kind of showing you guys who we authenticate like a lot of people, didn't expect for us to rise up in that way, and I also feel like it made them feel as though They were taking a stand against oppression, which they were we couldn't even fathom or imagine what our ancestors ancestors went through at that time. So I felt like the Afro was the universal signal for black power back then, whether it was black power in sexuality, black power. You know against oppression, black power in my political party, black power for civil rights or whatever it was. I felt like natural hair, just kind of triumph, all of that in one back then, at that time. Well, the 70s is truly one of my favorite periods in time because I feel like it had so much authentic flavor like we just have flavor just authentically. You know from our bones from my heart so, as you can see during the 60s and the 70s natural hair was everywhere, but in the 80s and the 90s afro was kind of phasing out and other styles were coming in. So that's where we're gon na get into next, so my next segment will be about the 80s and the 90s so make sure y'all stay tuned and check out the different parts. I will be doing it all the way up until now, so we have the 80s and the 90s, the 2000s and then the 2010. I am loving gathering all of this information for these videos and putting it together. I am doing tons of research. 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