Vivid images show joys, struggles of black Chicagoans in the 1970s
 

Vivid images show joys, struggles of black Chicagoans in the 1970s
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August 1973

A teenager flexes for the camera during a community program on the south side of Chicago.

Image: John H. White/National Archives

John H. White bought his first camera at the age of 13 for 50 cents and 10 bubble gum wrappers. He went on to become a sergeant and photographer in the Marine Corps and a photojournalist in Chicago.

From 1973 to 1974, he was hired by the Environmental Protection Agency to document the lives of the 1.2 million black residents of his city

For two years, White explored the city, making intimate and powerful pictures of neighbors and strangers, capturing Chicagoans in states of joy, sorrow, reverence and celebration. He supplemented his images with meticulously researched captions that drew on statistics to illuminate the eco**mic landscape of the “black business capital of the United States.” Read more...

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