FEDERAL JUDGE JAMES B. PARSONS IN THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN CHICAGO. HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK JUDGE APPOINTED TO THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. THE APPOINTMENT WAS MADE BY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. IN APRIL, 1975, JUDGE PARSONS BECAME SENIOR JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT, THE FIRST BLACK SENIOR JUDGE IN THE COUNTRY
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”.
Also appearing in the collection…
“Federal Judge James B. Parsons in the Federal Building in Chicago. He was the first Black…”
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Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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