The adoption of Ivy among African-Americans in the mid-20th century as a reinforcement and rebuke of Ivy itself.
The Black Power movement gains prominence; reflected by countercultural fashion trends.
Post-MLK
Voter Registration Efforts in the Deep South
1960s
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
1968
Selma to Montgomery March
1965
Students at HBCUs, such as Morehouse & Howard, adopt Ivy, as well as jazz musicians, civil rights activists, and other black 'influencers' of the time.
1950s-60s
Black Ivy
