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the original African coiffure & fashion extravaganza designed to restore our racial pride & standards! : a memorial experience into the philosophy of Marcus Garvey
Poster advertising Naturally '70, an Afrocentric fashion show featuring the Grandassa Models, held Saturday May 23rd 1970 at the new Rockland Palace in Harlem. Features iconic image of Garvey surrounded by Grandassa Models. Other named participants in the event included Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, Jr., Leon Thomas, Pablo & His Yoruba-Lucumi Society, Nadi Qamar, Tommy Jonsen, Ed Williams, and The Empresses. Organized by the African Jazz-Art Society and Studios (AJASS), the AJASS held its first fashion show in 1962 at the Purple Manor nightclub in Harlem and promoted the event using a new slogan, "Black is Beautiful," which would subsequently resonate throughout the 1960s and 70s.
poster by Hierographics Dzigners, Cecil Elombe Brath & Robert Gumbs ; photos, Ronnie Brathwaite.