Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. SCENE IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO ON 47TH STREET, A BUSY THOROUGHFARE WHERE MANY SMALL BLACK BUSINESSES ARE LO

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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. SCENE IN SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO ON 47TH STREET, A BUSY THOROUGHFARE WHERE MANY SMALL BLACK BUSINESSES ARE LOCATED MANY OF THE CITY'S BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS STARTED WITH SMALL OPERATIONS AND GREW WITH HARD WORK. TODAY CHICAGO IS BELIEVED TO BE THE BLACK BUSINESS CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. CENSUS FIGURES IN 1970 NOTED THAT 8,747 BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES WERE IN OPERATION IN CHICAGO AND GROSSED MORE THAN $332 MILLION

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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...