Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. OLDER HOUSING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY ON CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE THIS AREA IN 1973 HAD NOT QUITE RECOVERED FR

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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. OLDER HOUSING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY ON CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE THIS AREA IN 1973 HAD NOT QUITE RECOVERED FROM THE RIOTS AND FIRES DURING THE MID TO LATE 1960'S. ACCORDING TO THE 1970 CENSUS, 22 TO 29% OF THE RESIDENTS WERE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL. BLACK WEST SIDE BUSINESSMEN FORMED AN ORGANIZATION, FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WHICH RESULTED IN AGREEMENTS WITH MAJOR NATIONAL FRANCHISES AND RESULTED IN SOME $20 MILLION IN JOBS FOR AREA CITIZENS BY 1974

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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...