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Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers

A 1950s photograph of Brigham Young University students dancing the Lindy.

A 1950s photograph of Brigham Young University students dancing the Lindy.

Citation Information: “Students dance the ‘lindy,’ 1950s,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/f3b3582e7e9bebb7b7fdead3c43f5a32.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee Library via Mountain West Digital Library.

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Item 10 of 10 in the Primary Source Set Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers

A 1942 photograph of a “swing shift” dance.

A 1939 photograph depicting an African American couple dancing the jitterbug in a juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

A photograph of the Big Apple Night Club, an African American juke joint housed in an old Jewish synagogue in the 1930s in South Carolina.

A photograph of an African American couple dancing the Lindy in the 1930s at an unidentified club.

Excerpts from a 1938 book on Popular Ballroom Dances for the Student of Social Dancing by Thomas E. Parson.

A 1950s photograph of Brigham Young University students dancing the Lindy.

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