CHICAGO GHETTO ON THE SOUTH SIDE. ALTHOUGH THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS MAKING $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58% BETWEEN 1960 AND 1970, A LARGE PERCENTAGE STILL REMAINED UNEMPLOYED. THE BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE GENERALLY IS ASSUMED TO BE TWICE THAT OF THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
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…
“Chicago ghetto on the South Side. Although the percentage of Chicago Blacks making...”
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Date
1973–4
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Documerica
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