“A contingent of 15 nurses,…arrive in the southwest Pacific area, received their first batch of home mail at their station”
268th Station Hospital, Australia, November 29, 1943
Three of the nurses are Lts. Prudence L. Burns, Inez Holmes, and Birdie E. Brown
Series: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954, by The U.S. National Archives
Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing.
Foreground (left to right): Joseph L. “Joe” Chineworth (partial view, wheel cap) Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Emile G. Clifton, San Francisco, CA, Class 44-B; Richard S. “Rip” Harder, Brooklyn, NY, Class 44-B.
Along back wall (back to front): Frank N. Wright, Elmsford, NY, Class 44-F; Robert J. Murdic, Franklin, TN, Class 44-F; Jimmie D. Wheeler.
Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945.
Source: Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots
Toni Frissell, photographer
Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress
Dred Scott and his family: Top: daughters Eliza and Lizzie; bottom: Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet.
Illustration in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857, front page.
Library of Congress
© Gordon Parks, 1956, Segregation Series / PART 1
Gordon Parks took these pictures on assignment for a September 1956 Life magazine photo-essay, “The Restraints: Open and Hidden,” which documented the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family living in the rural South under Jim Crow segregation.
While 20 photographs were eventually published in Life, the bulk of Mr. Parks’s work from that shoot was thought to have been lost. That is, until this spring, when the Gordon Parks Foundation discovered more than 70 color transparencies at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series.”
These quiet, compelling photographs elicit a reaction that Mr. Parks believed was critical to the undoing of racial prejudice: empathy. Throughout his career, he endeavored to help viewers, white and black, to understand and share the feelings of others.
More than anything, the “Segregation Series” challenged the abiding myth of racism: that the races are innately unequal, a delusion that allows one group to declare its superiority over another by capriciously ascribing to it negative traits, abnormalities or pathologies. (read more)
EXHIBITION “THE RESTRAINTS: OPEN AND HIDDEN”
The exhibition “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” will be on view in the Lyndhurst Gallery at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC.
Exhibition dates:
Nov. 15, 2012 – Mar. 2, 2013Adding this exhibit to my “must see” list!
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“From the Grand-daddy down”
Southern Pines, NC, ca. 1914
Library of Congress
Los Angeles couple, Henry and Watie Belle, in their living room with the family maid, 1929
Shades of L.A., Los Angeles Public Library
