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Mirror, Mirror: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 10:43am.
February 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Negro girl putting up her hair." One in a series by Arthur Siegel documenting the life of a "typical Negro worker's family" and the "conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project." Office of War Information. View full size.
Before the storm
Submitted by TomR on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 3:06pm.
In a few days, things were about to get very unpleasant. See this article. Wonder how this girl and her family made out.
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