Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1944 - 2006. DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern. 1972 - 1977. SOUTH SIDE BLACK COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO WITH SMALL BUSINESSES AND APARTMENTS OVER THE STORES IN THE OLDER

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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. SOUTH SIDE BLACK COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO WITH SMALL BUSINESSES AND APARTMENTS OVER THE STORES IN THE OLDER BUILDINGS NEAR 43RD AND INDIANA AVENUE. CHICAGO AREA CENSUS FIGURES SHOW A SIGNIFICANT GAP IN ECONOMIC SECURITY BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES. ONLY 35% OF BLACK FAMILIES EARNED $10,000 TO $25,000 IN 1970 COMPARED TO 60% FOR WHITES. OF FAMILIES EARNING LESS THAN $8,000 SOME 50% WERE BLACK AND 21% WHITE THE 1970 MEDIAN BLACK INCOME IN CHICAGO WAS 65% OF WHITE FAMILIES

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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...