THE REV. JESSE JACKSON ADDRESSING AN AUDIENCE AT THE ANNUAL PUSH ’BLACK EXPO' IN CHICAGO. THE ANNUAL FAIR GIVES BLACKS EXPOSURE TO BLACK TALENT, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, PRODUCTS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS. THE AIM IS TO MAKE BLACKS AWARE OF THEIR HERITAGE AND CAPABILITIES AND HELP THEM TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE
Featured on PDR in the collection John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
It’s hard not to read John H. White’s DOCUMERICA series as a love letter to Black Chicago. Whether capturing protesters or checkers players, concerts or chores, White’s work feels animated by a wonder and curiosity for the great breadth of stories and characters he encountered while exploring his adopted home city — “life”, as he put it in the captions to several of his images, “in all its seasons”.