Civil rights leaders used Black barbershops as voting organizing arenas
Lorenzo Lewis · HIBT Lab! The Confess Project: Lorenzo Lewis · Mar 2, 2023 · at 28:18
Lorenzo Lewis, founder of The Confess Project, discusses the historical legacy and community role of Black barbershops in America with Guy Raz.
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“And so it goes as even far back as you think about the civil rights era and, you know, and the Malden brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King and the NAACP utilize barbershops as a organizing arena for voting.”
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