what many Black folks wore to church is also what they wore to protest, from Black men in three-piece suits and dress shoes to Black women with white dresses or dress suits and a hat, cocked to ...

And that would be no small feat, since proper church ladies back then all wore hats — their finest, of course, on Easter. For generations, church sanctuaries across the nation on Sunday mornings ...

As 40,000 members of the Church of God in Christ ... were peddling a vast array of women’s hats, referred to in some circles as “crowns.” Men in sharp dark suits carried two or three drum ...