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Jumping the broom

CTL-E-1280 · Practice · other · 1865–2026

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Wedding ritual in which the couple leaps over a broom to seal the union, originating among enslaved Black people denied legal marriage and revived as a heritage symbol in late-20th-century Black weddings.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-012; source research type(s): practice.

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Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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