Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. EMPTY HOUSING IN THE GHETTO ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE STRUCTURES SUCH AS THIS HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY VAC

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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. EMPTY HOUSING IN THE GHETTO ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE STRUCTURES SUCH AS THIS HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY VACATED AS A RESULT OF FIRES, VANDALISM OR FAILURE BY OWNERS TO PROVIDE BASIC TENANT SERVICES. THEN THE VACATED BUILDINGS, OFTEN SUBSTANTIALLY SALVAGEABLE, ARE RAZED AND REPLACED WITH HIGHRISE APARTMENTS WHICH APPEAL TO FEW MEMBERS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ALMOST NONE OF THE AREA'S PREVIOUS RESIDENTS

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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...