Afros: Black Movement

Afros (Black Pride)

Another style which was popular back in the 70’s as it is now is the afro haircut. That was the time when black people were just starting to enjoy powers in society. They grew their hair as a sign that they too had it in them to go up into the upper echelons of the fashion world. It created a craze which doesn’t seem as if it is going out of style anytime soon. The afro gained popularity during the 1960s and 1970s, in connection with the growth of the Black Pride and Black Power political movements, and the emergence of blaxploitation films and disco music.
However, during the later half of the 1970s, the style passed into the cultural mainstream and for many people became simply a fashion that sometimes even Caucasian men (and women) with looser, less curly hair adopted.