BUD BILLIKEN DAY PARADE AS IT TRAVELS CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE ON DR. MARTIN L. KING JR. DRIVE. ONE OF THE LARGEST EVENTS DURING THE YEAR, IT IS HELD FOR BLACKS OF ALL AGES AND ECONOMIC STATUS, AND ATTRACTS UP TO HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ALONG THE ROUTE. THE PARADE INCLUDES BLACK POLITICIANS, BLACK BUSINESSES DISPLAYING THEIR PRODUCTS, BLACK BANDS AND BLACK BEAUTIES OF ALL AGES
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”.
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“Bud Billiken Day parade as it travels Chicago’s South Side on Dr. Martin L. King...”
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1973–4
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Documerica
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