How_Swing_Helped_Desegragation

How Swing Helped Desegragation Easing the tensions of segregation one dance step at a time Sing, sing, sing, sing everybody start to sing la dee da dee whoa ho ho now your singin’ with a swing! That wonderful sound that filled from the hot air on summer nights at the legendary Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, New York can still be heard today in ballrooms through out the country. When most people think of the legendary era of Swing that spanned the late 1920’s all the way through the early 1940’s they think of it as nothing more than a form of dance. But in actuality Swing was created to ease the tensions of segregation and hopefully put and end to it! Many people believe that swing had made segregation worse, but in actuality it helped the movement more than it hurt it. During the roaring 20’s, 30’s and 40’s not only were the Afro- Americans dealing with segregation but so were American woman as the woman’s suffrage movement gained more and more backing. Teenagers were also looking for their place within the American sub culture and turned to swing as a happy medium in teenage acceptance. Having partner dancing where both members were on the same footing and dance, swing, new, lindy, dancing, dancers, time, savoy, hoppers, first, young, whitey, step, out, one, form, couple, came, after, very, segregation, people, ballroom, six, sing, over, members, manning, hop, great, began, back, american, york, worlds