Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. BLACK WOMAN SITS ON A PORCH SWING ON CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE AND SURVEYS HER ROSE GARDEN. SHE IS ONE OF NEAR

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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. BLACK WOMAN SITS ON A PORCH SWING ON CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE AND SURVEYS HER ROSE GARDEN. SHE IS ONE OF NEARLY 1.2 MILLION OF HER RACE WHO MAKE UP MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF CHICAGO'S POPULATION. SHE LIVES IN AN AREA WHICH WAS HARD HIT BY RIOTS AND FIRES DURING THE MID AND LATE 1960'S. THE 1970 CENSUS NOTED THAT 22 TO 29% OF THE AREA'S RESIDENTS LIVED BELOW THE OFFICIAL POVERTY LEVEL

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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...