The Community Roles of the Barber Shop and Beauty Salon National Museum of African American History and Culture

Since the turn of the 19th century, beauty salons and barber shops have served as special places where black people could be vulnerable and talk about issues of importance in the community.

One haircut at a time, Micron and OCC reach out to Syracuse's Black and Latino communities

The Role of Beauty Shops in the Civil Rights Movement

Making waves: Beauty salons and the black freedom struggle

How the barbershop became prominent in Black culture

Elite Cuts Barber Shop

Black Beauty: a Brief History of the African American Beauty Industry

The Early Role of the Black-owned Barbershop in African-American Entrepreneurship

Strands Of Love' Connects Generations Of An African-American Family

Faded Glory in Chicago's Bronzeville, by Tiffany Chang

Saving sacred spaces.

Honoring African Americans: Barbering

Barbershops and Barbers - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Black Heritage Books: The History of Black Salons and Barbershops - BSB MEDIA

Black-Owned Galleries to Support in the United States