Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. A BLACK MAN PAINTING A STORE FRONT ON SOUTH WABASH STREET ONE OF THE NEARLY 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE OF HIS RA

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Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. A BLACK MAN PAINTING A STORE FRONT ON SOUTH WABASH STREET ONE OF THE NEARLY 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE OF HIS RACE WHO MAKE UP MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF CHICAGO'S POPULATION. IT IS ONE OF MANY BLACK FACES IN THIS PROJECT THAT PORTRAY LIFE IN ALL ITS SEASONS. IN SHORT, THEY ARE PORTRAITS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO FEEL THEY ARE INDIVIDUAL AND ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE. THEIR FACES MIRROR PRIDE, LOVE, BEAUTY, HOPE STRUGGLE, JOY, HATE, FRUSTRATION, DISCONTENT AND FAITH

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White, John H., 1945-

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John H. White (born 1945 Lexington, North Carolina) is an American photojournalist, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1982. After working for the Chicago Daily News, White joined the staff of the Chicago Sun Times in 1978 and worked there until May 2013. White also teaches photojournalism at Columbia College Chicago, and formerly taught at Northwestern University. In 1973 and 1974 White worked for the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project photographing Chicago and its African Am...