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UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, All photos from The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: Film strip graphic L-R: African American children playing singing games, Eatonville, FA (June, 1935) by Alan Lomax, Alan Lomax Collection, LOT 7414-C, no. N102; Rosalie Hill (with guitar) on Fred McDowell’s porch by Alan Lomax, Association For Cultural Equity; Joe Murphy’s Filet Harmonicats entertain at Fulton Fish Market as Danny Brooks weighs a fish (1962) by Dick De Marsico, NYWT&S Collection, NYWTS / LC-DIG- ppmsca-12780; Negro in Greenville, Mississippi (1936) by Dorothea Lange, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-009621-E-D; Baptism near Mineola, Texas (1935) by Alan Lomax, Alan Lomax Collection, LOT 7414, no. N18; Arikara girl–Siouan tribes and Arikara Indians of North and South Dakota (1908) by Edward S. Curtis, Edward S. Curtis Collection, LOT 12321-D; Negro laborer’s family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant (June, 1938) by Dorothea Lange, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-018952-E; Change of shift at the steel plant in Aliquippa, PA (July, 1938) by Arthur Rothstein, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-026501-D; Baptist women, Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana (July 1934) by Alan Lomax, Alan Lomax Collection, LOT 7414-B, no. N47.   INSIDE LEFT PANEL: Chicago & North Western Railway station, Elmhurst, IL Photographer unknown, Detroit Publishing Company, LC-D4-4623.  INSIDE RIGHT PANEL: Lincoln Highway approaching Paradise, PA (December, 1941) by Arthur Rothstein, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-024502-D.   CD LABEL: Highway direction markers, Crowley, LA (October, 1938) BY Lee Russell, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF33-011707-M4.

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“Change of shift at the steel plant.  Aliquippa, PA”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-USF346- 026500-D

Arthur Rothstein (July, 1938)

“Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.”

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsca-03128

Warren Lefler  (August 28, 1963)

What Is / The Soul of a Man

“Negro in Greenville, Mississippi”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Photograph Collection

LC-DIG-fsa-8b29723

Dorothea Lange (1936)

“Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, IL.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsac-1a34597

Jack Delano (Dec, 1942)

Margaret’s Voice

“Arikara girl – Siouan tribes and Arikara Indians of North and South Dakota”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Portrait Photographs 1900-1910

LC-USZ62-136594

Edward Curtis (1908)

“Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsac-1a33894

Jack Delano  (June, 1941)

Troubled, South of Memphis, 3 A.M.

“Rosalie Hill (with guitar) on Fred McDowell’s porch”

Association For Cultural Equity

Alan Lomax (1959)

“Prisoner in camp hospital, Darrington State Farm, Texas”

Library of Congress,  Prints and Photographs Division,  Lomax Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsc-00288

Alan Lomax (April, 1934)

Blow Boys, Blow

“Joe Murphy’s Filet Harmonicats entertain at Fulton Fish Market as Danny Brooks weighs a fish.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsca-12780

Dick DeMarsico (1962)

“Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, MS.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsa-8c36090 DLC

Marion Post Wolcott (Nov, 1939)

Going Over Home

“Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale.

Negro laborer’s family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsa-8b33011

Dorothea Lange (June, 1938)

“Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsc-00241

Arthur Rothstein  (April, 1936)

Sealion Woman, Sealion

“African American children playing singing games, Eatonville, FA”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsc-00383

Alan Lomax (June, 1935)

“Kids’ race. Fourth of July celebration, Vale, Oregon”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-USF346-039636-D

Russell Lee  (July, 1941)

A City Called Heaven

“Baptism near Mineola, Texas”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsc-002089

Alan Lomax (Summer, 1935)

“Grand Central Terminal, New York City”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsa-8c33198

John Collier  (October, 1941)

Parchman, 1939

“Baptist women, Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection

LC-DIG-ppmsc-00323

Alan Lomax  (July, 1934)

“Mississippi Delta Negro children”

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection

LC-DIG-fsa-8b29649

Dorothea Lange  (July, 1936)

Photo for CD label

“Highway Direction Markers, Crowley, LA”

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection,

LC-USF33-011707-M4

Lee Russell

Background photos:

“Chicago & North Western Railway station, Elmhurst, Ill.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company,

LC-D4-4623

Photographer unknown

“Lincoln Highway approaching Paradise, PA”

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection,

LC-USF34-024502-D

Arthur Rothstein

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