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 MOTHER AND FATHER WITH THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN IN CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE GHETTO. ALTHOUGH FIGURES IN TH

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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 MOTHER AND FATHER WITH THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN IN CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE GHETTO. ALTHOUGH FIGURES IN THE 1970 CENSUS NOTE THAT NEARLY HALF OF THE NATION'S 22.7 MILLION BLACKS WERE IN MIDDLE INCOME BRACKETS, AN EQUAL NUMBER WERE TRYING TO FIND JOBS THAT PAID ENOUGH FOR THEM TO ENTER THE MIDDLE CLASS. AND THE RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR BLACKS NATIONWIDE IS BELIEVED TO BE TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. THIS FAMILY LIVES IN A TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT BECAUSE THE FATHER MAKES $7,000 PER YEAR

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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...