July 1942. Woman and her daughter in the Frederick Douglass housing project in the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C. View full size. 4x5 safety film negative by Gordon Parks, Office of War Information.
It is so nice and refreshing to see a black mother and child portrayed as how we really look outside of poverty and slavery! Bravo for this ONE AND ONLY foto of African Americans I've ever liked on this website. We would love to see more. There are some people out here who really want to see some of their heritage as well.
Submitted by New York City Public Housing Authority PIO on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 9:10am.
FYI -- On January 20, 1934, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia filed a certificate establishing the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) as the first public housing authority in the country. Less than one year later, on December 3, 1935, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for First Houses, the city’s first public housing development. Where tenements had once been, there were now 123 new apartments, each with a private kitchen and bath, electrical outlets, an electric refrigerator and a stove. Eleven thousand New Yorkers submitted applications for the first apartments.
