Cutting Across the Color Line by Quincy Mills

Black Barbershops and the Civil Rights Movement

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 30, 2014

Historian Quincy T. Mills chronicles the cultural history of black barbershops as businesses and civic institutions. He talks about how barbers played a significant though complicated role in 20th-century racial politics. His book  Cutting Along the Color Line: Barbershops is a sweeping history of an iconic cultural establishment that shows how black entrepreneurship was linked to the struggle for equality.

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