11/06/08

Some of the most compelling B&W work comes from the American civil rights era. In honor of recent historic political events, we’ll be featuring some of this stirring work. To start, we’ve added this shot,  courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Let’s call this image:

The Choke ‘Em Down Lunch Room: Jim Crow....Not.

(Photographer Unknown. If anyone knows who took this shot, please let me know: rudolph2528@gmail.com.

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