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How Did Personal Style Affect The African-American Civil Rights Movement?

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While both men and women, France and North America were revolutionized by new hairstyling hair-cuts for both sexes, the African-American society also redefined their personal style as an effect the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which also brought an appreciation of African beauty and aesthetics, as embodied by the Black is beautiful movement. The Afro became popular among the Black Panther Party, and famous artists, such as the Jackson Five and the Supremes. By the 1970s the Afro had already started to wane. Its introduction to the mainstream and its adoption by people of non-African decent caused the famous haircut to lose its radical and political edge. The tightly coiled hair that black women used to wear until then was grown
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