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Our clothes come with a politic.
SNCC used denim overalls as a counterbalance between women and men. They used overalls as a symbol of solidarity with sharecroppers in the rural South during Jim Crow. They used overalls to combat politics of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
SNCC used denim overalls as a counterbalance between women and men. They used overalls as a symbol of solidarity with sharecroppers in the rural South during Jim Crow. They used overalls to combat politics of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Yesterday, my 5-year-old asked me why I always wear overalls. He was curious about the buttons that I wear on my clothes. I didn’t give him a history lesson on denim/workwear and Black folks, but I did show him pictures. I did tell him that those pictures were of our ancestors.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, he was wearing denim workwear. He wasn’t wearing his “Sunday best.”
He was aware of the politics of denim.
It was this MLK that wrote ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’.
#BlackHistoryMonth
He was aware of the politics of denim.
It was this MLK that wrote ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’.
#BlackHistoryMonth
When Joyce Ladner, Kwame Ture (then (Stokely Carmichael) and other members within SNCC purposely rocked denim overalls, as a uniform, it was a conscious effort to build with Black folks that were most terrorized by violence of Jim Crow America.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
Here’s an article by Tanisha C. Ford titled ‘SNCC, Women, Denim, and the Politics of Dress’ to add to your collection and this conversation.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23795090?seq=1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23795090?seq=1
