Easter Sunday Is Peak Black Church Fashion: An Appreciation

From infants to elders, congregants make the pews their runway

Churchgoers outside of Pilgrim Baptist Church on Easter Sunday, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, 1940. Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

There is an oft circulated black-and-white image that represents an array of Black diasporic tendencies, such as cool and style. In a photograph taken by Russell Lee in 1941 for the Farm Security Administration titled “Negro boys on Easter morning,” five young…