THE REV. JESSE JACKSON SPEAKS ON A RADIO BROADCAST FROM THE HEADQUARTERS OF OPERATION PUSH, AT ITS ANNUAL CONVENTION. ONE OF THE AIMS OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO OPEN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS TO SMALL BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES. REV. JACKSON IS CREDITED FOR HELPING TO MAKE CHICAGO THE BLACK BANKING CAPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. HE HELPED PERSUADE WHITE COMPANIES TO STOP TAKING PROFITS THEY EARNED FROM BLACK CONSUMERS TO THE WHITE SUBURBS

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”.

“The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks on a radio broadcast from the headquarters of Operation...”

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Date

1973–4

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Documerica


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Public Domain GOV

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1500 x 1007

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